"Over the past thousand years, the asteroid has passed through a particularly intense swarm that has profoundly altered the chemical properties of its surface." When you purchase through links on our ...

This occurrence will be the closest approach to Earth by an asteroid of this size that scientists have known about in advance Lexi Lane is a weekend banking writer at PEOPLE. She first joined as a ...

NASA has confirmed the exact date when a rare asteroid will pass by Earth, coming closer to our planet than any other celestial object of its size in documented human history. The asteroid, named ...