Newly discovered bus-size asteroid will zoom close past Earth today — and will not return for exactly 100 years

An artist's illustration of an asteroid flying past Earth and the moon.

A bus-size asteroid, first spotted just over a week ago, will zoom past Earth today (Sept. 3). The space rock will not get this close to us again until Sept. 4, 2125 — almost 100 years to the day.

The asteroid, dubbed 2025 QV5, was first spotted on Aug. 24. It is approximately 35 feet (11 meters) across, or around the same width as a school bus is long, and is hurtling toward us at more than 13,900 mph (22,400 km/h), according to NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) Asteroid Watch.