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 ...

According to NASA's Asteroid Watch dashboard, the closest approach to Earth will be some 1,580,000 miles (2,550,000 km) away, made by the aeroplane-sized asteroid known as 2023 TG14. The asteroid ...

A green comet shooting through the morning skies is scheduled to make its closest approach to Earth at the beginning of next month. Comet C/2022 E3 (ZTF) was first spotted in March of last year ...

We all know that asteroids are out there, that some of them come dangerously close to Earth, and that they've struck Earth before with catastrophic consequences. The recent discovery of asteroid ...

A Nasa spacecraft has made history by surviving the closest-ever approach to the Sun. Scientists received a signal from the Parker Solar Probe just before midnight EST on Thursday (05:00 GMT on Friday ...

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) is closely monitoring asteroid 2025 CA2, which is set to pass by Earth on 18 February ...

It is predicted to make its closest approach to our planet at around 14.43 ET on January 30, at a minimum distance of around 264,000 miles. Relative to the Earth, 2025 BV5 will be moving at some ...

Asteroid 2023 NT1 was first spotted on Saturday, two days after it made its closest approach to Earth on July 13. In other words, by the time sky surveys and scientists were first made aware of ...