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 ...

Asteroid 2012 DA14 is just one of many asteroids in space, most of which have yet to be discovered, its discoverers say. The asteroid will fly extremely close to Earth on Feb. 15.

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 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 — may be the closest a space rock has ever come to hitting the planet without actually hitting it. Scientists pre… ...

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 ...

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.

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 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 -- a 150-foot-wide jagged hunk of rock hurtling through the blackness of space -- came within 1.5 million miles of the Earth on Feb. 16. Discovered in late February by ...