When people think of meteor showers, they often picture themselves reclining under a star-filled sky and watching fleeting ...

For example, the Perseid meteor shower occurs every August when Earth intersects with debris from Comet Swift-Tuttle. What are some interesting asteroid belts in our solar system? There are a few ...

unlike most meteor showers, which originate from comets, according to NASA. Asteroid 2003 EH1 takes about 5.52 years to orbit the Sun and could be a “dead comet” or “rock comet,” a rare ...

China Wednesday launched its Tianwen-2 space mission to collect asteroid samples and conduct a main-belt comet study. A LongMarch 3B rocket lifted off from Xichang Satellite Launch Center.

Tianwen, which means "questions to heaven," is the name given to China's program of robotic Solar System exploration. Tianwen ...

A meteor shower occurs when Earth passes through a cloud of debris left by a comet or asteroid. These particles, often no larger than a grain of sand, burn up upon entering Earth's atmosphere ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Orionids — one of two annual meteor showers from Halley's comet — peak early Monday. A bright waning moon may make them difficult to spot. The Orionid meteor shower can ...

But one study posits that the asteroid is part of a larger planetary body, possibly a comet, that broke up in a collision or explosion, and the resulting debris gives us the meteor shower.

Unlike most meteor showers, the Geminid meteor shower doesn't originate from a comet, but from an asteroid. Astronomers theorize that the asteroid, 3200 Phaethon, could be what's known as a "dead ...

UNDATED (AP) - A recently discovered comet that some stargazers had hoped to see during Halloween week has disintegrated before the day of ghosts and ghouls. NASA confirmed Tuesday its sun ...

unlike most meteor showers, which originate from comets, according to NASA. Asteroid 2003 EH1 takes about 5.52 years to orbit the Sun and could be a "dead comet" or "rock comet," a rare celestial ...