An asteroid named "2012 DA14" will fly by Earth closer than any rock of its size since record-keeping began, 17,150 miles. Watch live coverage below: Live… ...

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 ...

Asteroid 2012 DA14 will flyby the Earth next week. NASA observers report that a sizable asteroid, some 13 stories tall, will fly harmlessly by Earth next week, and then head far away from our ...

Asteroid 2012 DA14 will come close -- but not too close -- to earth on Friday. Can I see the space rock flyby?

An initial sequence of radar images of asteroid 2012 DA14 was obtained on the night of Feb. 15/16, 2013, by NASA scientists using the 230-foot (70-meter) Deep Space Network antenna at Goldstone ...

With the fly-by of another asteroid 2012 DA14 due only hours later, the obvious initial reaction was to draw a link between these two chunks of space rock.

On February 15, asteroid 2012 DA14 passed extraordinarily close to the Earth. Unlike the unexpected asteroid collision over Russia that day, this encounter never presented any danger, but ...

This image shows asteroid 2012 DA14 and the Eta Carinae Nebula, with the white box highlighting the asteroid's path. The image was taken using a 3" refractor equipped with a color CCD camera. The ...

2012 DA14 was first spotted in February 2012 by astronomers at the La Sagra Sky Survey in Spain - once a fairly small-scale, amateur effort to discover and track asteroids that has in recent years ...

Asteroid 2012 DA14 won’t hit us… but what if it did? Although asteroid 2012 DA14 will not impact Earth, other small undocumented asteroids could.