How Did We Miss the Asteroid That Will Narrowly Miss Us?: Space still harbors surprises aplenty, even with our rapidly evolving technologies

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.

How Did We Miss the Asteroid That Will Narrowly Miss Us?: Space still harbors surprises aplenty, even with our rapidly evolving technologies

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.

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