2029 Apophis asteroid flyby will be a close encounter with Earth Earth’s gravity may dramatically alter the surface of ...

The OSIRIS-REx spacecraft's name has been changed to OSIRIS-APEX for its new mission to asteroid Apophis. See its journey to ...

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

NASA revealed that 'Asteroid 99942 Apophis' is a near-Earth object (NEO) which is likely to be about 335 meters across. It is expected to be the closest to Earth by 2029. The asteroid is almost ...

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

Named for the ancient Egyptian god of chaos and destruction, Apophis is capable of destroying a city if it were to strike ...

A paper published in the Planetary Science Journal claims that Apophis could collide with a small asteroid like the ones that frequently and unpredictably strike Earth, which could alter its ...

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 ...

Washington: The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has issued an alert for November 13 as asteroid 99942 ...

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 ...

The Rapid Apophis Mission for Space Safety mission, or Ramses for short, faces a race against time. It needs to launch in early 2028 in order to get up close with the infamous asteroid Apophis as ...

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 ...