Update: The live shows are over, though you can still watch a replay of the Google + hangout below. Watch live as the 3-mile-wide asteroid 4179 Toutatis zips by the Earth today with this ...

A three-mile wide asteroid called Toutatis began its path Tuesday night as it flew by Earth -- on its journey for the next week. Scientists said asteroid 4179 Toutatis does not pose a threat to Earth ...

A Chinese repurposed lunar orbiter, Chang'e-2, has flown by asteroid Toutatis, Chinese space officials announced. Chang'e-2 was launched on Oct. 1, 2010, the second moon probe launched by China as ...

NASA keeps tabs on all near-earth objects, and their calculations say a civilization-ending impact from space -- like this artist's impression -- is rather unlikely over the next several hundred years ...

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 distance ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. A new video captured by NASA shows the giant ...

On 13 December 2012, Chang’e-2 completed a successful flyby of the near-Earth asteroid 4179 Toutatis at a closest distance of 770 meters from the asteroid’s surface. The observations show that ...

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Space rock, or space rocks? A new study of asteroid 4179 Toutatis suggests the large asteroid that zips past Earth every four years is actually a collection of rocky fragments held together by gravity ...

A Chinese repurposed lunar orbiter, Chang'e-2, has flown by asteroid Toutatis, Chinese space officials announced. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited access to ad-free articles and ...

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 ...