Newly discovered asteroid 2026 JH2 will safely pass just 90,000 km above Earth on 18 May, offering astronomers a rare and dramatic close flyby.

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

The asteroid was discovered on May 10 by astronomers with the Mount Lemmon Survey, an astronomical project based in Arizona’s ...

Newly spotted asteroid 2026 JH2, which could be up to 115 feet wide, will fly past Earth closer than some satellites on ...

About the size of an adult blue whale, the asteroid will be even closer to Earth than the moon on Monday evening. Asteroid 2026JH2 will pass Earth Monday, closer than the moon but poses no threat.

An asteroid roughly the size of one to two school buses will fly by Earth Monday, coming as close as 56,913 miles, according to the European Space Agency — equivalent to about one quarter of the ...

A newly discovered asteroid will pass within about 56,000 miles of Earth on Monday, significantly closer than the distance between Earth and the moon. There is no need to worry or cancel any plans, ...