A truck-sized asteroid that suddenly loomed out of the darkness a few days ago -- with the Earth in its sights -- sailed ...

On Thursday, an asteroid passed by Earth in what NASA says is "one of the closest approaches by a near-Earth object ever ...

The rock, which was spotted for the first time on Saturday by an amateur stargazer in Crimea, came closest to the southern ...

The few meteorites that did make it to the ground would have been small, not the city-destroying, tsunami-generating monsters ...

At its nearest point, the asteroid was just 2,200 miles from Earth's surface — just a quarter of the height of many of the ...

A truck-sized asteroid zoomed by Earth on January 26. Should we be concerned? Here's how planetary defense works, according ...

Fortunately, NASA and other agencies closely track asteroids passing through Earth's cosmic neighborhood, discover hundreds ...

AN ASTEROID THE size of a small truck has made one of the closest approaches to the planet ever recorded. Despite its proximity, it sailed harmlessly past us last night according to scientists. The ...

BU, which was first spotted on Saturday, whizzed past without incident - and would likely have not made much of an impact had ...

BU make a close flyby of Earth in images shared by the Virtual Telescope Project taken when the rock was just 13,670 miles ...