As a planetary geologist, my research focuses on meteorite impact craters, the scars of large asteroid and cometary impacts ...

It's generated from the 3200 Phaethon asteroid, which is unique ... and Ursids is fueled by the 8P/Tuttle comet. Overall, it's a smaller meteor shower that'll be overshadowed mostly by Geminids ...

Comet P/2016 BA14 (Pan-STARRS) isn’t your average space snowball and it knows how to make an entrance. At first 2016 BA14 was mistaken for a dead, dry asteroid until subsequent observations ...

Most showers happen around the same time every twelve months as our planet passes through the debris trails of comets. Meteor showers are a permanent fixture on astronomers' calendars because of ...

Most showers happen around the same time every year as our planet passes through the debris trails of comets. Meteor showers are a permanent fixture on astronomers' calendars because of their ...

Asteroids and comets are small bodies in the solar system leftover from the formation of the planets. "As Earth orbits around the Sun, meteor showers occur when its path crosses a stream of dust ...

For example, the Perseids meteor shower is named after the constellation Perseus, and the meteors are pieces of the comet Swift-Tuttle ...