This NASA chart shows how bright asteroid 2012 DA14 will appear, as compared to other night sky objects, when it zooms within 17,200 miles of Earth on Feb. 15, 2013. Trajectory of Asteroid 2012 ...

When the asteroid 2012 DA14 gives Earth a close shave on Friday (Feb. 15), it will be a record-setting close encounter with a space rock of its size and you can track the flyby live online.

While there is no chance that asteroid 2012 DA14 will hit Earth this Friday, the asteroid's flyby is history-making for several other reasons. Using intricate mapping techniques, researchers have ...

Asteroid 2012 DA14 to come within 17,200 miles of Earth Feb. 15. Feb. 6, 2013 — -- It begins to get on your nerves. Every now and then -- a few times a year, depending on what you count -- an ...

Asteroid 2012 DA14’s flyby will provide backyard astronomers in Europe, Asia and Australia with a wonderful opportunity to spot the faint reflected sunlight of this interplanetary interloper.

Asteroid 2012 DA14 is making headlines this week, despite the fact that the "incoming" space rock, as it has been described, definitely won't hit Earth.

Asteroid 2012 DA14 is about 40 meters (131 ft) in size, has a mass of 130,000 tons, is traveling relative to the Earth at a speed of some 6.3 km/s (14,100 mph) ... and will miss us by less than ...

The asteroid expected to zoom by Earth on Friday -- but narrowly miss it ... Asteroid named 2012 DA14 to come closer than… Share this: Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) ...

The asteroid 2012 DA14, about 150 feet across, will come closest to Earth on Friday afternoon, Eastern time. It will miss by 17,200 miles -- not much to astronomers.

For the tl;dr crowd, let’s get this out of the way right away: asteroid 2012 DA14 is almost certainly not going to hit the Earth next February. And by “almost certainly”, I mean it: the odds ...

It may sound unsettling to hear that a potential killer known as asteroid 2012 DA14 will be coming closer to Earth than telecommunication satellites on Feb. 15, but don't panic: Earth's ...

Asteroid 2012 DA14 has made its closest pass of Earth, just a scant 17,200 miles from our surface, and now astronomers are watching it recede harmlessly into the cosmos. You can watch it, too ...