The minor planet (or asteroid) 2005 YU55 was first detected in December 2005, hence its name, and on 9 November 2011 passed the Earth at 00:28 CET in 0.85 lunar distances (324,600 km). The Herschel ...

An asteroid slightly bigger than a Nimitz-class aircraft carrier will zoom by Earth inside the orbit of the moon Tuesday, Nov. 8, but it poses no danger of smashing into our planet, scientists say.

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. Asteroid YU55 is about to swing by Earth, coming closer to our planet ...

An asteroid the size of a city block zoomed inside the moon's orbit today (Nov. 8) in a rare flyby that marked the closest approach to Earth by such a big space rock in 35 years. Subscribe to read ...

A huge asteroid about the size of an aircraft carrier will zoom past our planet next week, flying between the Earth and the orbit of the moon when it flies by on Tuesday (Nov. 8). Subscribe to read ...

This first infrared image of asteroid 2005 YU55 was captured by the Keck II telescope. This radar image of asteroid 2005 YU55 was obtained on Nov. 7, 2011, at 11:45 a.m. PST (2:45 p.m. EST/1945 UTC), ...

Asteroid 2005 YU55 - Radar image taken in 2010 - Credit NASA/Cornell/Arecibo On November 8th at 3:28 PM PST the asteroid "2005 YU55" will pass by the Earth at a distance of just over 200,000 miles, or ...

This radar image of asteroid 2005 YU55 was obtained at 2:45 pm ET on Nov. 7 when the space rock was 860,000 miles from Earth. Photo by NASA/JPL-Caltech. As folks on the East Coast are feeding the dog, ...

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