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.

Scientists predict that the asteroid Apophis may undergo significant surface changes when it makes its close approach to ...

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

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 ...

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

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

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

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

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 ...

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 ...