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

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

He shared key facts about the asteroid with CBS News during the below conversation, which has been edited for clarity. This asteroid passes us by every four years. Every time we go four times ...

"We now have the first outlines of a geologic map of the asteroid belt." Ten years ago, Jenniskens teamed up with astronomer Hadrien Devillepoix of Curtin University and colleagues in Australia to ...

"The universe is filled with a range of three-body systems, including the closest stars to Earth, the Alpha Centauri star system, and we're finding that the Kuiper Belt may be no exception!" ...

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

Anything that survives the impact is a meteorite. Where do meteorites come from? Most are from the asteroid belt, a jumble of rocks between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter. They range in size from ...

Credit: NASA, ESA, Joseph Olmsted (STScI) NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has discovered that a system of asteroids in the distant Kuiper Belt may be ... are more multi-asteroid systems out there ...

The Kirkwood gaps are explained by asteroids similarly interacting with Jupiter to leave the asteroid belt, even while their ...

Latest updates related to development of MBR Explorer in focus The Emirates Mission to the Asteroid Belt (EMA)'s critical design phase review was done by a group of Emirati and international experts.