Recent studies provide unexpected insights into the population of potentially dangerous asteroids orbiting near Earth. A team ...

While this proximity poses no danger to Earth, researchers believe the encounter could literally shake up the 1,100-foot-long ...

When Earth and the hazardous asteroid 99942 Apophis pass by each other in five years’ time, the passage through Earth’s ...

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

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 ...

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.

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

Four huge asteroids — and a fifth that's much smaller — are passing Earth on Thursday in their closest approaches to the ...

No need to freak out—only one asteroid is big enough to be considered hazardous, and it’s staying millions of miles away.

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

"Asteroids and comets with a perihelion distance (closest to the Sun) less than 1.3 astronomical units (AU), or approximately ...

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