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 ...

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 ...

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 ...