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 ...

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 ...

(Phys.org)—Scientists working with NASA's 230-foot-wide (70-meter) Deep Space Network antenna at Goldstone, Calif., have generated a series of radar data images of a three-mile-long (4.8-kilometer) ...

NANJING, Aug. 21 (Xinhua) -- A ginger-root-shaped asteroid named Toutatis, which poses a potential threat to earth, might have formed from the merger of two smaller asteroids, say researchers from ...

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 ...

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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 ...

(Phys.org)—Asteroid (4179) Toutatis, an Apollo-type near-Earth object (NEO) was thoroughly studied by Chinese Chang'e-2 spacecraft in 2012, when the space rock flew by Earth at a distance of 18 lunar ...

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 ...

For more information on Toutatis, as well as other upcoming sky events, please see the October 2004 issue of Astronomy magazine. More Toutatis facts Officially designated asteroid 4179, Toutatis is a ...