On May 9, a stadium-sized potentially hazardous asteroid will pass by Earth, and you can watch the flyby happen in real time courtesy of a livestream from The Virtual Telescope Project. The main ...

The asteroid, dubbed 2002 JX8, makes close approaches to both Earth and Venus relatively often, according to NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, managed by Caltech in California. It's last trip near ...

2002 JX8 is a sizable rock. It is estimated to be around 290 meters (950 feet) across. NASA describes it as "stadium-size", but Michigan Stadium in the US or Camp Nou in Spain (among the biggest ...

Known as the main belt asteroid 612356 2002 JX8 is not expected to post a threat to Earth during the 2025 flyby, according to NASA. Scientists at the Center for Near Earth Object Studies who track ...

Asteroid 2002 JX8 is moving towards Earth and is classified as potentially hazardous. Should we be worried? With an estimated diameter between 230 and 510 meters, on May 9 at 13:02 Italian time ...

Scientists say the "potentially hazardous" 950ft-wide space rock - named 612356 (2002 JX8) - will pass around 2.6 million miles away from our planet. However, space agencies deem there is no risk ...

Asteroid (612356) 2002 JX8 is a 950 feet (290 metres) wide lump of space rock that is due to come within 2.6 million miles (4.2 million kilometres) of Earth on Friday (May 9), according to NASA.

"We did follow-up observations of the Potentially Hazardous Asteroid (612356) 2002 JX8, slowly approaching our planet: on 9 May 2025, it will safely come as close as 4.2 millions of km [(2.6 ...

The asteroid, dubbed 2002 JX8, makes close approaches to both Earth and Venus relatively often, according to NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, managed by Caltech in California. Need a break?

A stadium-sized asteroid will pass by Earth on Friday, May 9. And if you're interested, you could see it happen in real time, thanks to a livestream from The Virtual Telescope Project. Known as ...

There are a lot of asteroids around us this weekend, and the biggest of them all is known as asteroid 612356 (2002 JX8). As space rocks go it is a very dangerous one, because it would cause ...