By: Express Web DeskOctober 8, 2025 02:56 PM IST 3 min readAsteroids the size of aeroplanes are hurtling towards the Earth, as per NASA (AI image used for representation only).An asteroid, the size of an aeroplane is hurtling towards Earth at breakneck speed. According to to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), the asteroid measuring about 87 feet across, will pass by Earth today.However, there is no need to panic as the closest the asteroid, named 2025-TN2, will be to the Earth would be 1,340,000 km.As per the NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, which tracks asteroids, said there are three more asteroids, two the size of a house and another the size of an aeroplane, which are approaching Earth.The 2025-TN2 is, however, the largest among them. The three others — 2025 SJ29, 2025 TF1, and 2020 QU5 — measure 55 feet, 65 feet, and 81 feet across, respectively.Small asteroid passes by earth without anyone noticingA small asteroid sped past Earth last week, flying closer than many of our own satellites. As per the European Space Agency (ESA), astronomers only spotted it hours after the event.The unexpected close encounter took place at 8:47 pm EDT on Tuesday, September 30, the website reported. The asteroid — roughly the size of a giraffe — skimmed over Antarctica at an altitude of just 428 kilometres, according to new data released by the European Space Agency (ESA).The space rock, now officially named 2025 TF, was detected only a few hours later by astronomers using the Catalina Sky Survey, a NASA-funded programme that tracks near-Earth objects.Story continues below this adEstimated to be between 3.3 and 9.8 feet in diameter, the asteroid posed no danger to Earth. ESA said that if it had entered the atmosphere, it would have likely disintegrated as a bright fireball. Even so, its trajectory raised some concern, as it passed through the same altitude band where the International Space Station typically orbits. Luckily, no satellites or spacecraft were in its path.Agencies like NASA and ESA monitor thousands of near-Earth objects (NEOs) to identify potential collision risks. At present, scientists say no known asteroids pose a threat to Earth for at least the next 100 years.For an object to be considered “potentially hazardous”, it must be at least 460 feet wide and come within 7.48 million kilometres of Earth — around 20 times the distance between Earth and the Moon. Asteroid 2025 TF was far smaller than that threshold, explaining why it slipped past detection until after its flyby.© IE Online Media Services Pvt LtdTags:asteroid