One of the asteroids will come as close as within 120,000 miles from the Earth, soaring past at over 41,000 miles per hour.

Most asteroids orbit within the main asteroid belt between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter. But some follow paths that circulate into the inner solar system, including so-called near-Earth asteroids, ...

Brand new research has produced a better estimate of its size and orbit, which give it a 3.8 percent chance of hitting the ... middle of the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter.

What's significant about this 100m-wide space rock is that it has a small chance of hitting Earth in 2032 ... that tend to live in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter.