An asteroid that’s somewhere between 30 and 100 feet long is hurtling through space in the direction of Earth at 30,000 miles per hour — but don’t worry. We’re not in any danger. On Oct. 12, the ...

Astronomers watched and waited at approximately 1:42 A.M. Eastern time on Thursday morning as asteroid 2012 TC4 zoomed past our planet. It came within a distance range of 26,000-27,000 miles despite ...

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On 12 October, an asteroid will pass by Earth at an astronomical stone's throw from the surface of Earth, whizzing past us at a distance of as little as 4,200 miles. And NASA is using this opportunity ...

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Here comes another one! Early Thursday morning, Oct. 12, the house-sized asteroid 2012 TC4 will pass fewer than 9,000 miles from the geostationary belt of communications satellites that ring the Earth ...

An asteroid the size of my front yard will zoom by 59,650 miles from, well, my front yard tonight. At average walking speed, you could step from one end of this boulder to the other in just 13 seconds ...

Asteroid 2012 TC4 hasn't been seen since its last brush with our planet five years ago, but calculations of its trajectory told astronomers that it would return in October 2017. Right on cue, the ...

A cosmic close call is set to occur high above Earth late Wednesday night (Pacific time) when an asteroid the size of a house passes almost as close to us as some of the communications satellites that ...