The space rock is hurtling through our cosmic backyard at a zippy 26,200 miles per hour, according to the space agency.

Low as their risk may be, asteroid impacts continue rank among the biggest threats to Earth from space, and pretty huge ones have hit Earth several times in the past. To learn more about the biggest ...

Richard Binzel has been watching the skies for hazardous asteroids for more than 50 years. In 1995, he proposed the Near-Earth Object Hazard Index, later renamed the Torino scale, which rates ...

An asteroid hit Earth's atmosphere last Friday. Astronomers were able to precisely determine where it was going to strike. And despite seeing it just two hours before impact, its small size meant it ...