The asteroid 3200 Phaethon completes an orbit around the Sun every 1.4 years. Its path is highly ... [+] elongated, much like a comet's. Perhaps it is an extinct comet, or maybe it's a true ...

While most meteor showers come from comet debris, the Geminids come from a large near-Earth asteroid-like object called 3200 Phaethon that astronomers estimate is about 3.6 miles wide. When to see ...

However, 3200 Phaethon is an odd object that astronomers are still trying to define. It's possibly a "dead comet," or a new type of object known as a "rock comet." Scientists hope to solve the ...

In fact, it's growing stronger. That's because Jupiter's gravity has tugged the stream of particles from the shower's source, the asteroid 3200 Phaethon, closer to Earth over the centuries ...

A blood moon lunar eclipse in September would top this year’s celestial events, although the Geminid meteor shower would also ...

The shower occurs when the debris tail of an extinct comet called '3200 Phaethon' passes through the Earth's sphere. "Geminids are pieces of debris from an object called 3200 Phaethon. It was long ...