As the asteroid lines up for a planetary flyby in 2029, space agencies are coordinating to conduct some groundbreaking ...

On Friday, April 13, 2029, an asteroid will come closer to Earth than orbiting geosynchronous satellites in a ...

Space agencies from the US, Europe and Japan are all making plans to visit the asteroid Apophis when it makes an extremely ...

If an asteroid were to fly through the keyhole at the right time, it could alter its orbit. It was thought initially that, when Apophis was set to fly past Earth in 2029, it could fly through the ...

Astronomers first predicted that Apophis could get close to Earth in 2029 ... list of potential doomsday scenarios, for now. The agency announced on Thursday that asteroid 99942 Apophis, which ...

Asteroid Eros, which the NEAR spacecraft orbited and landed on in 2001, was covered in an unexpectedly large number of boulders. Bennu ... an asteroid like 99942 Apophis, a 1,100-foot-wide ...

It’s almost twice as big as the doomsday asteroid Apophis, which is expected to pass close to the Earth in 2029. While the asteroid might have blown past our planet this morning, the best time ...

Discovered in 1999, asteroid Bennu ... Apophis was once considered a high-risk object but was downgraded after a 2021 observation clarified its orbit. Apophis will pass close to Earth in 2029 ...