A massive 460-foot-wide asteroid will speed past Earth this week. Fortunately, the “Christmas asteroid,” as many have dubbed it, will only come within 420,000 miles of our planet.

NASA has warned that the massive asteroid 2024 NX1 will skim past Earth tonight - reaching its closest point at 02:56 am GMT in the early hours of Christmas Eve.

However, the Christmas Eve asteroid will make its closest pass in December of 2106 when it will skim past Earth at a distance of just 2.11 million miles (3.4 million km).

There is no substance to multiple media reports that an asteroid passing by Earth on Christmas Eve will cause earthquakes on the planet, according to asteroid experts at NASA's Jet Propulsion ...

The asteroid will zip past our planet at a distance of 6.8 million miles. An asteroid will safely fly past Earth on Dec. 24, 2015, at a distance of 6.8 million miles, according to NASA. NASA/JPL ...

Budding asteroid hunters will have until next week to spot the Christmas asteroid as despite traveling at an estimated speed of around 13,500 mph (21,700 km/h) past Earth, 2015 RN35 will remain ...

Christmas Eve asteroid the size of a 10-floor building makes ‘close approach’ to Earth tonight By . Ben Cost. Published Dec. 23, 2024, 9:37 a.m. ET.

At its closest approach on Christmas Eve, asteroid 2003 SD220 will be about 6.6 million miles (10.6 million kilometers) from Earth — about 27 times farther than the moon is from Earth.

While asteroid 216258 2006 WH1 (which was discovered in 2006) will truly be passing by earth around Christmas, CNEOS reports that the asteroid is expected to safely pass by earth at a distance of ...

At its closest approach on Christmas Eve, asteroid 2003 SD220 will be about 6.6 million miles (10.6 million kilometers) from Earth — about 27 times farther than the moon is from Earth.

However, the Christmas Eve asteroid will make its closest pass in December of 2106 when it will skim past Earth at a distance of just 2.11 million miles (3.4 million km).