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 ...

This image from video made available by NASA's Center for Near-Earth Object Studies shows the path of asteroid 2020 SW as it safely passes Earth on Thursday, Sept. 24, 2020. Orbiting the Earth is the ...

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 ...

Here’s one extraterrestrial express bus you’ll be glad you missed. An asteroid named 2019 AE3 will pass by Earth on the morning of Jan. 2. NASA says the space rock is between 32 and 71 feet long, or ...

A small near-Earth asteroid (or NEA) will briefly visit Earth’s neighborhood on Thursday, Sept. 24, zooming past at a distance of about 13,000 miles (22,000 kilometers) above our planet’s surface. The ...

An asteroid the size of a school bus is headed our way, but NASA says the space rock will zoom safely past Earth on Thursday. The newly discovered asteroid will come within 13,000 miles (22,000 ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — An asteroid the ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — An asteroid the size of a school bus is headed our way, but NASA says the space rock will zoom safely past Earth on Thursday. The newly discovered asteroid will come within ...