Japan will join a European project to observe the Apophis asteroid when it passes close to the Earth by providing the H3 ...

Two mission concepts are seeking funding to fly by and even collide with an asteroid that is making a very close flyby of ...

Japan plans to join a European Space Agency mission to observe an asteroid set for a close flyby of Earth in 2029, a source ...

Asteroid Apophis will pass close to Earth in 2029, but scientists have confirmed there's no threat of a collision. Find out ...

After delivering an asteroid sample to Earth Sunday, the newly expanded OSIRIS-APEX mission is heading to Apophis. The asteroid will come within 20,000 miles of Earth in 2029.

The chance of an unknown asteroid hitting Apophis off its current course at all was less than one-in-a-million. And the odds that such an impact would send it hurtling toward Earth in 2029 was ...

Apophis, which measures about 1,100 feet across, originated about 4.6 billion years ago in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. It is an S-class asteroid, characterized by silicate material ...

Apophis—an asteroid as wide as three football fields—has a slim chance of slamming into Earth in 2068. Before then, however, the object is scheduled to zip past us in an encounter that ...

Apophis is a on trajectory towards an Earth flyby on April 13, 2029. When it was first discovered in 2004, the 1,100-foot-wide (335 meters) near-Earth object was designated as a hazardous asteroid ...

An asteroid that has been nicknamed after the Egyptian God of Chaos is speeding up, scientists recently revealed. Scientifically known as 99942 Apophis, the massive, 1,120-foot-wide space rock will… ...

With the recent fly-by of a 1,000-foot-wide asteroid labeled 99942 Apophis, one of a class of space rocks referred to as “near-Earth objects” or “Earth-grazers,” scientists have revised ...

Apophis asteroid: Russian scientists are warning that a rock the size of two football fields is poised to strike our planet in 2036. But NASA says the odds are just one in a quarter million.