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

On May 18, an asteroid about the size of Chicago’s Cloud Gate will fly four times closer to Earth than the moon.

The livestream will begin at 3:45 p.m. EDT on May 18, bringing near real time views of the asteroid from robotic telescopes in Italy, weather permitting.

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.

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