Articles About Asteroids (7)

What Are Asteroids?

Learn more about these space rocks orbiting the Sun.

Astronomical Glossary - Terms & Definitions

What do astronomers really mean when they use those technical terms?

Meteors: How to See

Tips on how and where to see shooting stars.

What Are Comets?

Icy leftovers from the birth of the solar system.

What Is a Meteor Shower?

Shooting stars produced when Earth travels through debris from a comet or asteroid.

Asteroid 2004 BL86 to Fly By Earth

On Monday, January 26, 2015 asteroid 2004 BL86 flew by at only 3 times the distance of the Moon from the Earth.

The Solar System

Everything that orbits the Sun is part of the solar system.