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 ...

For a brief, but exciting, time last year, Earth had two moons. A small asteroid lingered close to our planet in its orbit ...

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 ...

Why hadn't we noticed it sooner? - NASA and all of humanity failed to locate this asteroid. They are small in size and the ...

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WASHINGTON, Jan. 24, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- NASA will brief media at 11 a.m. EST Wednesday, Jan. 29, to provide an update on ...

Adding to the solar system show this week, another asteroid, known as 2020 XR, will fly by Earth at 12:27 a.m. ET on Wednesday, according to NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Significantly larger ...

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 ...

NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) is keeping a close eye on an asteroid set to approach Earth on January 16, 2025. The ...

Asteroid 2020 XR was discovered exactly four years ago, the ESA explains, though NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory says it was first observed in 2013. Initially, ESA says astronomers believed it ...