An unexpected near-Earth asteroid has just skimmed past our planet. This space visitor, identified as 2025 TF, approached at a distance equivalent to that of the International Space Station.

An asteroid, called 2025 TF, safely passed within roughly 250 miles (400 km) of our planet on Sept. 30 after surprising astronomers.

The sneaky asteroid is from the Apollo cluster, a group of near-Earth asteroids that can occasionally get pretty close to us. It sped past at a break-neck 46,700 miles per hour, while it's believed to ...

The asteroid is projected to come within 865,000 miles of Earth—nearly five times closer than the orbit of the moon.