The space rock is expected to zoom past our planet at a zippy 28,655 miles per hour, according to the space agency.

Astronomers have tracked several meteorites that dropped in on Earth back to their origin, space rocks in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter.

"This has been a decade-long detective story, with each recorded meteorite fall providing a new clue," said one astronomer.

YR4, once referred to as a ‘city-killer’ with the potential to cause regional devastation and impact the climate, is no ...

"Scientifically there's a huge amount we can learn from asteroids," says Alan Fitzsimmons, an astronomer at Queens University Belfast and a member of one of Nasa's sky surveys that searches and tracks ...

An asteroid discovered over 200 years ago which is roughly the size of Germany would have catastrophic consequences for life ...

Where do meteorites of different type come from? In a review paper, astronomers trace the impact orbit of observed meteorite falls to several previously unidentified source regions in the asteroid ...

Led by Curtin University geologists Chris Kirkland and Tim Johnson, a research team unearthed this primeval crater beneath ...

Donaldjohanson formed about 150 million years ago when a much larger asteroid broke apart. Since then, its orbit and spin ...

Asteroid YR4 was discovered on December ... with missions to NEAs paralleled by the study of populations in the Main Belt and outer solar system. In the coming years, missions to interstellar ...