A bus-sized asteroid is set to hurtle past Earth today at a staggering speed of 35,000mph - ten times faster than a speeding bullet. The space rock, known as Asteroid 2025 BS4, will pass within 511,000 miles of our planet at approximately 3.

NASA is tracking the path of a huge asteroid that will come hurtling past Earth at a staggering speed of 35,000mph later today. The giant space rock, Asteroid 2025 BS4, is 23 feet wide and weighs nearly 4,

NASA astronauts Victor Glover, Reid Wiseman, Canadian Space Agency astronaut Jeremy Hansen and NASA astronaut Christina Hammock Koch pose for pictures after a news conference about the NASA's Artemis II mission outside the U.S. Capitol May 18, 2023 at Washington, DC. Drew Angerer/Getty Images

NASA’s plans to return to the moon continue to highlight goals of landing the first woman and first person of color on the lunar surface even amid the agency’s recent shutdown of diversity, equity and inclusion programs known as DEI under executive orders from President Trump.

NASA, an independent agency of the U.S. government, will no longer be upholding DEI efforts. In a press release, NASA shared its plans to comply with executive order “Initial Rescissions of Harmful Executive Orders and Actions,