A menacing asteroid named Apophis is projected to have a close encounter with Earth in 2029, but scientists have long ruled it out as an impact risk.

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

Asteroid Apophis has the tiniest chance of hitting earth in 2029 – on a Friday the 13th While the chances of an impact are slightly higher than we thought, the odds are still about one-in-2 ...

As Apophis passes closer to Earth than geosynchronous satellites in April 2029, the asteroid will hopefully be tracked by a new ESA mission called Ramses.

Astronomer Paul Wiegert had found a scenario in which Apophis could be sent careening into Earth in 2029. But we’d have to be extremely unlucky.

NASA has confirmed that asteroid 2025 MA90 is approaching. The space rock is roughly 280 feet in diameter. That’s about the ...

A space rock the size of a cruise liner will have a close encounter with Earth in April 2029. While the asteroid Apophis won’t hit Earth, NASA and ESA are both planning missions to tag along.

In April 2029, a 20-million ton asteroid once thought to pose a potentially catastrophic collision risk with the Earth will fly by our home. Apophis, named for the Egyptian god of chaos and evil ...

As Apophis passes closer to Earth than geosynchronous satellites in April 2029, the asteroid will hopefully be tracked by a new ESA mission called Ramses.

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 ...

A space rock the size of a cruise liner will closely pass Earth in April 2029. While the asteroid Apophis won’t hit Earth, two spacecraft may tag along.