A large asteroid is hurtling toward Earth -- but there's no need to duck and cover.The space rock, known by the very dull name of 2014 JO25 will safely fly by Earth on April 19, according to NASA.

The space rock is so large that Lucy could not capture its entirety in its first set of images beamed back to Earth. It will take up to a week to downlink the remainder of the encounter data from the ...

Then it collided, catastrophically, with another object and shattered into pieces. One of these lumps became the asteroid Bennu whose minerals, recently returned to Earth by the US robot space probe ...

Long before it reaches its destination, NASA's Lucy spacecraft delivers valuable data. Now it has passed a particularly unusually shaped asteroid.

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If something happened to Earth, our species could be wiped out. For example, the aforementioned asteroid impact. Colonizing other bodies in the solar system (or building our own orbiting habitats ...

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A woman in her 30s was struck and killed in a hit-and-run crash in the Mayfair section of the city late Thursday night, police said. The woman, whom police did not identify, was crossing the street on ...