T onight, a massive asteroid—2020 XR—will make its closest-ever approach to Earth, passing at a distance of 1.37 million miles.For context, that’s about five times the distance from Earth to ...

Editor’s Note: The livestream event meant to show Asteroid 2020 XR making its pass by Earth has been canceled due to weather. (NEXSTAR) — A day after a small asteroid impacted Earth on Tuesday ...

To put it in perspective, asteroid 2020 XR is about 1,200 feet in diameter, large enough to wipe out a small city. It’s designated as a “near Earth object,” or NEO, based on its size and how ...

Asteroid 2020 XR meets those criteria to be a potentially hazardous near-Earth object (NEO). The asteroid discovered in 2020 is set to make an astronomically close approach early on Wednesday more ...