Last month, an asteroid impacted Earth's atmosphere just hours after being detected — somehow, it managed to circumvent ...

The space rock, known as 2024 VM1, will fly past our planet on Wednesday at a minimum distance of around 193,000 miles.

An asteroid the size of the Empire State Building, named Apophis, could potentially hit Earth in 2029, but scientists ...

The ATLAS survey, a four-telescope system tasked with tracking near-Earth objects, first observed the asteroid in images ...

Humans might be worried about what the potentially hazardous, near-Earth asteroid Apophis may do to our planet once it makes ...

The successor mission, NASA's NEO Surveyor (Near Earth Object Surveyor), will be the first space telescope that will be ...

After extensive tracking and refined calculations, astronomers have claimed that the 1,100 feet wide asteroid, 99942 Apophis, ...

When the ancient 'God of Chaos' asteroid skims close to Earth it could have a major reaction and be transformed.

Apophis is the ancient Greek name for the Egyptian god of chaos Apep. The deity is also linked to earthquakes, thunder, ...

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

That small streak of light represented the end of a NASA-led mission suffused with peril. Lauretta and his colleagues had ...

A new European Space Agency mission is set to study asteroid Apophis to learn more about how we can handle asteroid threats ...