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 ...

Now that everyone’s nerves are on edge following the break up of a small asteroid over Chelyabinsk, Russia this morning, we now turn our frayed attention to Asteroid 2012 DA14. NASA is scheduled to ...

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 ...

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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — A 150-foot-wide asteroid will come remarkably close to Earth next week, even closer than high-flying communication and weather satellites. It will be the nearest known ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

“No Earth impact is possible,” Donald Yeomans, an asteroid expert at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, in Pasadena, California, told the media. At its closest approach, DA14 will be 27,300 km from ...