Astronomers have detected the largest comet ever recorded in the solar system — Bernardinelli-Bernstein, a colossal 100-kilometer-wide space giant, currently traveling toward the sun from the distant ...

What are Eta Aquariids? Where do they originate? Meteors are essentially pieces of space rock, which are chunks of big comets, according to Space.com. Meteor showers are "basically debris from the ...

The Eta Aquarid meteor shower will ... into Earth's atmosphere. When comets come around the sun, they leave a dusty trail of particles and bits of broken asteroids, NASA explains, and every ...

The Eta Aquarid meteor shower will ... into Earth's atmosphere. When comets come around the sun, they leave a dusty trail of particles and bits of broken asteroids, NASA explains, and every ...

including comets, asteroids, and even the moon and other planets. When meteoroids enter Earth's atmosphere at high velocities and burn up, they become meteors, commonly called "shooting stars." ...

Here's what to know about the Eta Aquarids and other meteor showers. As the Earth orbits the sun, several times a year, it passes through debris left by passing comets and sometimes asteroids.