The space rock came as close as within 4.15 million miles from our planet, according to NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

China's Tianwen 2 mission captured stunning views of Earth and the moon from deep space just days after launch.

The Perseid meteor shower, expected to peak Aug. 12-13, will light up the night sky with up to 100 meteors per hour, offering stargazers one of the year’s best celestial shows.

The flash in the Georgia sky in June, described by witnesses as a fireball, traveled hundreds of millions of miles through space before entering the Earth’s atmosphere, eventually crashing into a home. “This one went through a house in McDonough, an the whole mass, we estimate, was probably like the size of a large cherry tomato,” Harris said.