A Mysterious Asteroid Is Falling Apart Near the Sun — Scientists Are Shocked #shorts

Added: 2026-05-26

[00:00:00]Every night thousands of cameras watch the sky for meteors and hidden inside millions of detections scientists just found something extraordinary.

[00:00:09]A cluster of 282 meteors traced back to a single asteroid.

[00:00:14]One that ventures so close to the Sun the intense heat is literally cracking it apart.

[00:00:20]Solar heat is cracking its surface releasing trapped gases and causing the rock to slowly crumble creating a fresh debris stream Earth is already passing through.

[00:00:31]It's similar to Phaethon the asteroid behind the Geminid meteor shower.

[00:00:36]Scientists call these objects rock comets [music] and this one is still actively falling apart.

[00:00:42]The parent asteroid hasn't been found yet but NASA's NEO Surveyor launching in 2027 is going after it.