Asteroid 2012 DA14 is on its way to a near-rendezvous with Earth. In the meantime, NASA has an animated gif comprising three images provided by astronomers at the Remanzacco Observatory in Italy.

Last week an asteroid known as 4179 Toutatis passed by Earth at a relatively close distance, as far as these things go. As it tumbled in space, getting as near as 4.3 million miles or 18 times the ...

NASA’s Dawn spacecraft has now gone into its first orbit around the giant asteroid (or dwarf planet ... 0.8 mile wide (1.3 kilometers) in each pixel. The now famous, yet still mysterious ...

The Japanese space agency has shown the world photographic evidence of a detonation on the asteroid Ryugu ... of the aftermath – combined into a GIF of before and after shots – were taken ...

To mark the arrival, NASA has now released a GIF of its gradual approach of the asteroid, growing from a small dot to the large diamond-shaped object we see today. With the aim of bringing back ...

A computer-generated image of what Earth would have looked like from Toutatis when it flew by in 1996 (NASA) Last week an asteroid known as 4179 Toutatis passed by Earth at a relatively close ...