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.
The European Space Agency's Hera craft, en route to an asteroid, recently captured footage of our planet and the moon, set ...
The asteroid, named after the Egyptian god of chaos ... researchers believe the encounter could literally shake up the ...
When Earth and the hazardous asteroid 99942 Apophis pass by each other in five years’ time, the passage through Earth’s ...
Asteroid 2024 DW flew about 139,000 miles (224,000 km) away from Earth. The space rock was estimated to be about 43 feet wide ...
Learn how the meteorite might have been incorporated into life on Earth.
A new study posits that our planet's gravity will cause seismic activity on Apophis when it makes its close approach in 2029.
Two meteor showers, both streams of debris from the same massive object that broke apart 20,000 years ago, are happening at ...
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 ...
When the 'God of chaos' asteroid Apophis makes an ultraclose flyby of Earth in 2029, our planet's gravity may trigger tremors ...
On September 29, 2024, Earth captured a tiny asteroid named 2024 PT5, turning it into a temporary mini-moon. It won't be around much longer.
In June 2018, Japan's Hayabusa 2 mission reached asteroid 162173 Ryugu. It studied the asteroid for about 15 months, ...