A huge asteroid has hurtled past the Earth in one of the closest encounters ever recorded.
The newly discovered asteroid, known as 2023 BU, is the same size as a double decker bus and narrowly flew past the planet at just 2,200 miles above the southern tip of South America.
Experts had insisted that there was no chance the asteroid would hit Earth, but the space rock came 10 times closer to the planet than many of the communication satellites above us.
