Car-Sized Asteroid Flies By Earth, No Risk Detected
A car-sized asteroid, roughly 4–8 meters wide and known as 2026FM3, passed about 147,000 miles from Earth (closer than the Moon) on March 24–25. NASA tracked the object after its discovery just days earlier and confirmed it posed no threat. Such small near-Earth objects frequently fly by, and studying these close approaches helps scientists refine detection and planetary defense for larger objects in the future.