NASA is preparing to test out its planetary defense systems on an asteroid that will come extremely close to Earth next week. Asteroid TC4 will pass us by on October 12 at an estimated distance of ...

STARGAZERS will be chuffed to know that they might be able to watch a cosmological event this week. Asteroid 2012 TC4 is passing through the Earth in a matter of days, here’s how to spot it… An ...

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PLANET Earth experienced a very close encounter with a space rock – the size of a HOUSE. The asteroid was watched by astrophysicists as it zoomed past at a distance of about 27,300 miles, which is an ...

17:00, Tue, Oct 10, 2017 Updated: 17:14, Tue, Oct 10, 2017 Asteroid 2012 TC4 will shoot past Earth on October 12 at a distance of just 31,000 miles – around an eighth of the distance between the Earth ...