This big asteroid was discovered less than a fortnight before its flyby Earth. But any time you see a headline about asteroids flying by the planet, you can relax. Big and small asteroids fly by Earth ...

Asteroid 2003 LN6, the size of 38 Menachem Mendel Schneersons, is set to pass the Earth on June 18, the anniversary of the ...

An asteroid roughly the size of one to two school buses will fly by Earth Monday, coming as close as 56,913 miles, according to the European Space Agency — equivalent to about one quarter of the ...

Across Earth, every night, thousands of automated stargazers are waiting to take pictures of shooting stars. I am one of the scientists who study these meteors. Most movies and news alerts focus on ...