Apophis is 340 metres wide, about the same as the height of the Empire State Building. If it were to hit Earth, it would ...

The European Space Agency has given the go-ahead for initial work on a mission to visit an asteroid called (99942) Apophis.

In the simulation, astronomers detect an asteroid with a 72 per cent chance of hitting earth ... to fly into Earth’s "danger zone" when it flies past in 2029 and 2036. Over 1,000ft wide ...

They also see long-term profit in space tourism, research, and manufacturing in low Earth orbit, and asteroid mining ... according to Texas 2036, a nonpartisan public policy think tank.

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

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

This is the third such telescopically detected object to hit Earth in 2024." Just last month, on September 5, 2024, another such asteroid was spotted just a few hours before it hit Earth.

Researchers have found evidence of the collision between Earth and an asteroid nicknamed S2 the size of four Mount Everests – that’s 200 times larger than the asteroid that hit our planet at ...

an asteroid (or comet) that would cause significant regional damage if it hit the Earth,” Martin Barstow, a professor of astrophysics and space science at the University of Leicester in the U.K ...

NASA's venerable asteroid-hunting spacecraft is no more. The NEOWISE spacecraft from NASA, which surveyed 3,000 near-Earth objects such as asteroids in its lifetime, burned up in the atmosphere as ...