Near-Earth asteroid 2012 DA14 has become a sizzling topic online and on the TV news. Not a week goes by lately when I don't hear about "the asteroid that's going to fly by Earth". Yesterday John, my ...

Asteroids headed toward earth are a popular plotline in movies, but those not well versed in the sciences might not know how to take news there’s one coming near us in real-life. With the asteroid ...

An asteroid about the size of the one that created Arizona's Meteor Crater will whiz by Earth on Feb. 15, getting closer to us than some of our orbiting communications satellites. Not to worry. That's ...

This NASA graphic obtained February 8, 2013 depicts the Earth flyby of asteroid 2012DA14. Hold on to your hats: an asteroid will zoom within spitting distance of Earth next week, in what NASA said ...

Close encounter People living in the west of Australia are well placed to see a space rock half the size of a football field skim past Earth next weekend. Discovered last year, the asteroid called ...

On Friday afternoon an asteroid known as "2012 DA14" floated by this lonely Earth and, thank God, did not collide with it. But it came close. Officials at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory studying the ...

(AP) A 150-foot asteroid hurtled toward Earth’s backyard, destined Friday to make the closest known flyby for a rock of its size. NASA promised the asteroid would miss Earth by 17,150 miles, avoiding ...

Asteroid 2012 DA14 has moved on, and the Russians are busy cleaning up the mess from yesterday's fireball. Hopefully a few people are also busy looking for meteorites from the fall. The only meteorite ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. On Friday (Feb. 15), an asteroid half the length of a football field will buzz close by Earth. It ...

BOSTON (Reuters) - An asteroid half the size of a football field passed closer to Earth than any other known object of its size on Friday, the same day an unrelated and much smaller space rock blazed ...