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.

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

In 2022 its space agency, NASA, collided a semi-autonomous spacecraft (capable of self-steering as well as being remotely ...

With our planet's history of close calls, it seems practical these days to get a doomsday bunker, if you can convince someone ...

In this case, deep space is defined by the International Telecommunications Union as being farther than 2 million kilometers ...

NASA has alerted that two substantial, airplane-size asteroids – 2024 UT7 and 2024 UX6 will be passing close to Earth on ...

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

Like other asteroids its size, Apophis is not spherical. Consequently, it rotates at different rates around two different ...

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 ...

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

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 ...