NASA will deploy cutting-edge technology to better understand the inner workings of 2024 XN1 during its near-Earth passage.

"In 1969, we landed humans on the moon; on Christmas Eve in 2024, we are going to embrace a star," Nour Raouafi, project ...

XN1, nicknamed the "Christmas Eve asteroid," will pass Earth at a speed of 14,743 mph on December 24, reaching its closest ...

While this is considered a “close approach” by interstellar standards — NASA defines near-Earth objects (NEOs) as those that ...

Asteroid 2024 XN1, nicknamed the "Christmas Eve asteroid," will pass Earth at a speed of 14,743 mph on December 24, reaching its closest point at 02:56 am GMT. With a size of 120 feet and a close ...

Near-Earth objects are asteroids and comets with orbits that bring them to within 120 million miles of the Sun.

NASA has announced that an asteroid, comparable in size to a 10-story building, will make a close approach to Earth on ...

NASA scientists are closely monitoring 120-foot long Asteroid 2024 XN1, which they say is set to "skim" Earth on December ...

A massive asteroid, nicknamed the "Christmas Eve asteroid," is set to skim past Earth on December 24 at an astonishing speed ...

A 10-story building-sized asteroid, 2024 XN1, will safely pass Earth on Christmas Eve at a distance of 4.48 million miles.