Skyscraper-Size Asteroid Once Feared to Hit Earth Zooms Past This Week – How to Watch Live
An asteroid the size of a skyscraper, once briefly feared to pose an impact risk decades from now, is about to make a close flyby of Earth on Thursday, September 18, 2025. This near-Earth asteroid, officially designated 2025 FA22, will whiz by at ~24,000 mph in the early hours of Thursday, coming within about 520,000 miles of our planet – roughly 2.2 times the distance of the Moon livescience.com. Discovered only in March 2025, the giant space rock made headlines when initial calculations suggested a slim chance of an Earth impact in the year 2089, briefly vaulting it to the top of the European Space Agency’s asteroid risk list livescience.com esa.int. Thankfully, further observations ruled out any collision, and 2025 FA22 is now confirmed no threat – but it’s still generating excitement among astronomers and the public. Here’s everything you need to know about this dramatic flyby, from the asteroid’s key facts and history to how scientists are watching it and how you can see it live.
