An asteroid roughly the size of one to two school buses will soon fly by Earth and no one knew it existed until last week.

An asteroid named 2026JH2 will swing by Earth on Monday, passing four times closer than our distance to the moon.

Astronomers only discovered Asteroid 2026 JH2 a week ago, and now it's paying us a visit.

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An asteroid roughly the size of one to two school buses will soon fly by Earth and no one knew it existed until last week.

Astronomers did not know about the space rock until about a week ago.

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Asteroid 2026 JH2 sailed came within 50,000 miles of Earth - about a quarter of the distance to the Moon - and was only spotted by experts just a few days ago