Meteors are grains of dusty debris from parent bodies like comets and asteroids. As the Earth’s orbit intersects that of the parent body’s orbit, some of this dust smashes into the Earth’s atmosphere, ...

A new study predicts that the potential impact of asteroid 2024 YR4 with the moon in 2032 could shower Earth with meteors. . | Credit: Adastra via Getty Images ...

Space Astronomy Asteroids 'City killer' asteroid 2024 YR4 could shower Earth with 'bullet-like' meteors if it hits the moon in 2032 News By Harry Baker published 26 June 2025 ...

In the next seven years, Earth will have a close shave with two asteroids - Apophis and Asteroid YR4 2024. In 2029, 99942 Apophis will fly by at an eerily close distance and will be visible even ...

The 2025 Bootid Meteor Shower, peaking June 27, promises a rare celestial display with meteors from comet 7P/Pons-Winnecke lighting up dark skies across the Northern Hemisphere. The post 2025 ...

In 2022, NASA rammed a spacecraft into an asteroid to see if it could alter its orbital period around its parent asteroid.

The meteor shower is expected to peak from Aug. 12-13, although moonlight will impact meteor visibility. The moon will be 84% full during the peak. NASA says the best time to view the Perseids is ...

Astronomers at the University of Maryland found that a surprising burst of rocky debris released during the DART mission ...

According to NASA, the Perseids is considered the best meteor shower of the year, largely due to the long streaks of color they leave as they head through our atmosphere, as well as their sheer ...

After defending his PhD thesis on modeling interstellar objects on Monday, June 30, Matthew Hopkins intended to take some ...

Asteroids, on the other hand, were thought to originate from the inner Solar System. Comets also contained abundant frozen volatiles, including water ice, that asteroids seemed to lack.

Asteroids, comets and Kuiper belt are bodies smaller than planets that orbit the sun. Asteroids are composed of metals and rock, whereas comets also contain ice and dust.