Today, a near-Earth asteroid some 150 feet (45 meters) wide will make its close approach to Earth. 2012 DA 14, which Spanish amateur astronomers discovered last year, will fly past our planet ...

NASA scientists at the near-Earth object program are monitoring asteroid 2012 DA14 closely and say there is absolutely no chance that the space rock will smash into our planet this time around.

Although there is no chance that asteroid 2012 DA14 will smash into our planet (coincidentally a meteorite exploded over Russia Friday morning), scientists say it's about the same size as the one ...