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 ...

NASA's venerable asteroid-hunting spacecraft is no more. The NEOWISE spacecraft from NASA, which surveyed 3,000 near-Earth ...

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

A new study looking at the potentially hazardous asteroid 99942 Apophis ... it did occur it would have to hit it in the right ...

Close calls in 2029 and 2036 were predicted and later ... list in terms of the probability of Earth impact There is a 4.7% chance of a hit by the asteroid, which is estimated to measure 7m in ...

(NewsNation) — Scientists say an asteroid known as the ... doesn’t pose a threat to Earth. While it will pass close to the ...

According to new research, Apophis's brief interaction with Earth’s gravity could unleash tremors and landslides on the ...

These are called "century asteroids" because they hit the Earth on average ... the second pass it misses Earth." An Armageddon-like tactic (exploding nukes in an asteroid) wouldn't work because ...

But the asteroid in question — named 2024 ON ... It was thought it could hit Earth in 2029, 2036 or 2068. Subsequent calculations ruled that out. It will come within 30,000km of the planet ...

It's called Apophis. The asteroid has a tiny chance of hitting Earth on Friday the 13th in April of 2029. That chance depends on it being hit by another asteroid or some other object in space at ...

The asteroid is as big as three football ... down the possibility that the ‘big rock to hit Earth’ won’t be Apophis — not in 2029, 2036 or even 2068. “A 2068 impact is not in the realm ...