The reliable shower produces bright meteors associated with the asteroid Phaethon, a strange blue rock that acts like a comet. Related: Meteor showers guide: Where, when and how to see them Daisy ...

As an asteroid, Phaethon is a ball composed mainly of rock, and it shouldn't have enough ice to form the glowing fuzzy coma and tail that adorn a comet. And yet, when Phaethon approaches the sun ...

Based on a new study of how Phaethon reflects light at different angles, astronomers think that its surface may reflect less light than previously thought. They say it could be caused by a darker ...

Related: The Geminid meteors may be 10 times older than we thought, simulations of oddball asteroid Phaethon suggest The Geminids are caused by 3200 Phaethon, which is thought to be an asteroid.

Unable to view our graphics? Click here to see them. The debris stream created by asteroid 3200 Phaethon is massive, and Earth passes through it once every year in mid-December. Although the ...

Scientists think that around this time, something catastrophic happened to an asteroid called 3200 Phaethon, causing it to crumble and fling bits of debris into a long ring around the Sun.

Earlier this month, JAXA also detailed efforts for its DESTINY+ mission to possibly swing by Apophis on its way to 3200 Phaethon (another asteroid). Science is a collaborative process, and for ...

3200 Phaethon is unambiguously a rocky asteroid with a closer approach to the Sun than any other named asteroid. Its perihelion distance is just 0.14 AU -- less than half of Mercury's own approach ...

If you caught the Geminid meteor shower earlier this week, stay tuned for another celestial phenomena on Saturday night: 3200 Phaethon. On Dec. 16, a three-mile-wide asteroid called 3200 Phaethon ...