On April 29, an asteroid estimated to be between 1.1 and 2.5 miles wide will fly by Earth. But it's not expected to collide with our planet, thankfully. All the latest breaking news on asteroid. NASA says Asteroid 2019 OK was between 57 and 130 metres in diameter.



The biggest space rock measured by NASA is the 2019 CD5. It measured 750ft 230m in diameter.

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 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.

C/2019 Q4 can be seen with professional telescopes for months to come. 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). Fifty years after Neil Armstrong's historic step, robots from China, India, Israel, the US and elsewhere are heading back. That’s much larger than the 20 metre-wide Chelyabinsk meteor. However, both are pebbles compared to the asteroid …

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. The huge asteroid will be the closest to Earth on March 20 and will be closer than the 2019 …

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.

But there is no need to panic as there is zero chance that the asteroid will hit Earth during the fly by.