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 ...

An illustration shows an asteroid impacting Earth in circumstances similar to the asteroid strike that killed the dinosaurs and plunged the world into darkness. NASA/NCAR A giant asteroid will fly ...

The 3200 Phaethon, a three-mile-wide asteroid, is slated to hurtle past Earth Saturday for the first time in nearly 45 years, according to NASA. The asteroid orbits the planet every 523 days, often ...

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Tiny space rocks fly past Earth all the time, but it's rare that a potential planet-killer makes an appearance in our neck of the woods. Earlier this month a massive asteroid named 3200 Phaethon ...

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 ...

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A massive asteroid is set to skim the Earth on Saturday, December 16 - just over a week before Christmas. With a diameter of about 3 miles, the asteroid is named 3200 Phaethon after the Greek demi-god ...

Campus Queries is a series in which Daily Bruin readers and staff present science-related questions for UCLA professors and experts to answer. Q: Is 3200 Phaethon potentially hazardous? A: 3200 ...

The source of the Geminid meteor shower is the asteroid 3200 Phaethon, which is unusual because it is comets that usually create meteor showers with icy debris. The Phaethon was first discovered in ...