Stadium-sized asteroid will zoom past Earth on Saturday: 5 things to know

An asteroid the size of a football stadium will pass between Earth and the moon on Saturday morning – the second of two astronomical near-misses in three days. Near miss in this case is a relative term: Saturday’s asteroid, 2024 MK, will come within 110,000 miles of Earth. Meanwhile, on Thursday, asteroid 2011 UL21 flew … Read more