The object is hurtling towards the Earth at a zippy 12,616 miles per hour, according to data from the space agency.

A bus-size asteroid is on course to skim past our planet, a reminder that Earth moves through a shooting gallery of rocks and ice. The close pass sounds ominous, but the science behind these ...

NASA’s asteroid trackers have just watched a school‑bus‑sized space rock make a safe, distant pass by our planet, part of a steady stream of small objects that routinely zip through the inner solar ...