Last month, an asteroid impacted Earth's atmosphere just hours after being detected — somehow, it managed to circumvent ...

When the ancient 'God of Chaos' asteroid skims close to Earth it could have a major reaction and be transformed.

An asteroid the size of the Empire State Building, named Apophis, could potentially hit Earth in 2029, but scientists ...

When the 'God of chaos' asteroid Apophis makes an ultraclose flyby of Earth in 2029, our planet's gravity may trigger tremors ...

A new European Space Agency mission is set to study asteroid Apophis to learn more about how we can handle asteroid threats ...

The asteroid was first observed on October 22 by the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) survey in Hawaii.

The European Space Agency has given the go-ahead for initial work on a mission to visit an asteroid called (99942) Apophis. If approved at a key meeting next year, the robotic spacecraft, known as the ...

Averting an asteroid strike will need many of the same skills we must hone to tackle climate change and future pandemics ...

A new study posits that our planet's gravity will cause seismic activity on Apophis when it makes its close approach in 2029.

A close flyby of an asteroid as large as Apophis happens only once every 5,000 to 10,000 years. Scientists plan to learn all they can.

Everyone’s focused on the risk of this object one day hitting Earth, but just getting close to us may do extreme things to it ...

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