The asteroid, named after the Egyptian god of chaos ... researchers believe the encounter could literally shake up the ...

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

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

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 ...

New research based on samples from asteroid Ryugu reveals that phosphorus-rich compounds could explain how Earth became ...

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.

Learn how the meteorite might have been incorporated into life on Earth.

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

D: Iron in the ocean (from the ocean circulation, from the impactor itself, and from erosion), along with nutrients (like ...

In June 2018, Japan's Hayabusa 2 mission reached asteroid 162173 Ryugu. It studied the asteroid for about 15 months, ...

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 ...

During this cubesat commissioning, we have not only confirmed the cubesat instruments and systems work as planned, but also validated the entire ground command infrastructure.' ...