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While the vast majority of meteor showers come from comets, the Geminids originate from the asteroid 3200 Phaethon. It gets ...

New observations of asteroid 3200 Phaethon have upended years of assumptions about this already bizarre object while adding another layer of mystery to the Geminids, one of the year's best meteor ...

The Geminid meteor shower is best known for the reliable show it puts on during the winter holiday season. But the event is also unique because it stems not from a comet but from an asteroid: 3200 ...

The Asteroid born at the birth of the solar system has long puzzled astronomers —until now. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. For ...

A weird, blue rock known as 3200 Phaethon, or more commonly Phaethon, got pretty close to Earth last year. That gave scientists a unique opportunity to study it up close — and they found that this ...

Eric Mack has been a CNET contributor since 2011. Eric and his family live 100% energy and water independent on his off-grid compound in the New Mexico desert. Eric uses his passion for writing about ...

A very weird and very rare blue asteroid recently flew by Earth and astronomers observing discovered something weird—it might not be an asteroid at all. The space rock, known as (3200) Phaethon, is ...

Princeton astronomer Charles H. Young (1834-1908) used to tell his students that small asteroids were hardly more than "mountains broken loose," compared to the solar system's larger asteroids which ...

A giant space rock is heading toward Earth, but there's no cause for alarm. Calculations show there’s no chance that the three-mile-wide object — a “potentially hazardous asteroid” known as 3200 ...