Its location in the sky (as seen from Earth) places it near the Sun - an area of sky not usually scanned by the large ground-based asteroid surveys or NASA's asteroid-hunting NEOWISE spacecraft. Browse The Independent’s complete collection of articles and commentary on asteroid.

A big asteroid 1998 OR2 will fly by within 3.9 million miles (6.3 million kilometers) of planet Earth on Wednesday morning (April 29). C/2019 Q4 can be seen with professional telescopes for months to come.

The huge asteroid will be the closest to Earth on March 20 and will be closer than the 2019 …
NASA is always keeping an eye on space rocks that get anywhere near Earth, and 2019 has been a relatively calm year in terms of close passes.

NASA says Asteroid 2019 OK was between 57 and 130 metres in diameter.

But it's not expected to collide with our planet, thankfully. Fifty years after Neil Armstrong's historic step, robots from China, India, Israel, the US and elsewhere are heading back. An asteroid that's a mile wide is going to fly close to Earth this week - but don't worry, there's no chance it's going to hit us and scientists are keen to study it Read more Posted at 3:25 22 Jan

But there is no need to panic as there is zero chance that the asteroid will hit Earth during the fly by. It measured 750ft 230m in diameter. However, both are pebbles compared to the asteroid …

That’s much larger than the 20 metre-wide Chelyabinsk meteor. On April 29, an asteroid estimated to be between 1.1 and 2.5 miles wide will fly by Earth.



All the latest breaking news on asteroid. On Saturday, an asteroid will pass by Earth that's larger than some of the tallest buildings on the planet. Space in 2019 will be all about the moon, and one weird asteroid. The biggest space rock measured by NASA is the 2019 CD5.