On February 15, asteroid 2012 DA14 passed extraordinarily close to the Earth. Unlike the unexpected asteroid collision over Russia that day, this encounter never presented any danger, but astronomers ...

KHQ.COM - An asteroid half the size of a football field will give Earth the ultimate close shave this month, passing closer than many satellites when it whizzes by, but it won't hit the planet, NASA ...

Will I be able to see it? Maybe, according to NASA. But unless you're in Indonesia, where they'll need binoculars, you'll need a telescope to see Asteroid 2012 DA14 zoom by at six moon diameters per ...

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 gravitational ...

Update: A 150-foot asteroid hurtled through Earth's backyard Friday, coming within an incredible 17,150 miles and making the closest known flyby for a rock of its size. Get more info at KQED News.

On Friday afternoon, Earth was looking at a close call from an asteroid; but it was a time for excitement, not fear. asteroid 2012 DA14 is half the size of a football field, and it traveled very close ...

YAHOO.COM - There is absolutely no chance that asteroid 2012 DA14 will hit Earth when it makes its closest approach on Friday (Feb. 15), but many other asteroids like it have made a crash landing on ...

Discovered last year by amateur astronomers in Spain, 2012 DA14, a near-Earth asteroid with an estimated diameter of 150 feet (45 m), will make its close approach to Earth this week. Slooh Space ...

It was a busy day for planet Earth. Asteroid 2012 DA14, a 45-meter wide space rock, sped past the Earth a mere 17,100 miles overhead. In the Ural mountains of Russia, a 15-meter wide, 7,000 metric ton ...