NASA has confirmed that asteroid 2024 XN1, about the size of a commercial jet, will safely pass Earth on December 24. It will ...

NASA has tracked a giant asteroid, 2020 XY4, which is moving towards Earth tomorrow. Check out the size, speed, distance from ...

NASA scientists are closely monitoring 120-foot long Asteroid 2024 XN1, which they say is set to "skim" Earth on December ...

Astronomers track asteroid 2020 XY4 as it approaches Earth on December 19, 2024. Learn about the asteroid's close approach ...

A car-sized asteroid will pass at about half the distance between Earth and the moon tonight (Dec. 6), concluding a busy week ...

The European Space Agency said that the asteroid, which was about 27.5 inches wide, was seen burning up across the sky on Dec ...

Asteroid 2020 XR was discovered exactly four years ago, the ESA explains, though NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory says it was ...

Earth got a relatively close shave this morning (Dec. 4), as a sizable space rock zipped by just 1.4 million miles (2.2 million kilometers) away. The asteroid, called 2020 XR, made its closest ...

This asteroid, named 2024 XA1, is only the 11th object we have ever managed to detect before it entered our planet's atmosphere.

"Asteroids are 'bits of a planet that didn't happen' that orbit the sun between Mars and Jupiter in the main asteroid belt," astronomer Jay Tate said.

4, 2020. The Pan-STARRS Project is designed to detect Near-Earth Objects that could threaten Earth. 2020 XR is an Apollo asteroid, a class of objects named for asteroid 1862 Apollo. Such asteroids ...

In October 2024, there were 30 near-Earth asteroid flybys. The asteroid 2007 JX2 will make its closest approach to Earth before 2020 XR on Tuesday at approximately 5:16 p.m. at a lunar ...