Last month, an asteroid impacted Earth's atmosphere just hours after being detected — somehow, it managed to circumvent ...
Some of these asteroids have little chance of hitting us but there are a few with very real chances of making contact. What ...
When the ancient 'God of Chaos' asteroid skims close to Earth it could have a major reaction and be transformed.
When the 'God of chaos' asteroid Apophis makes an ultraclose flyby of Earth in 2029, our planet's gravity may trigger tremors ...
After extensive tracking and refined calculations, astronomers have claimed that the 1,100 feet wide asteroid, 99942 Apophis, ...
An asteroid the size of the Empire State Building, named Apophis, could potentially hit Earth in 2029, but scientists ...
The asteroid was first observed on October 22 by the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) survey in Hawaii.
A new European Space Agency mission is set to study asteroid Apophis to learn more about how we can handle asteroid threats ...
A new study posits that our planet's gravity will cause seismic activity on Apophis when it makes its close approach in 2029.
Everyone’s focused on the risk of this object one day hitting Earth, but just getting close to us may do extreme things to it ...
New research indicates that the Taurid swarm contains fewer large asteroids than anticipated, suggesting a lower threat level ...
The space agency defied incredible odds to get its asteroid-hunting OSIRIS-REx spacecraft off the ground. Since then, the mission has upended everything we know about our solar system.