When the potentially hazardous asteroid 99942 Apophis makes its breathtakingly close flyby of Earth on April 13, 2029, more than 2 billion people across Africa and Western Europe will be able to watch ...

Artist’s concept of NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft collecting a sample from the asteroid Bennu. NASA spacecraft OSIRIS-REx has successfully dropped-off a sample from an asteroid—and immediately left to ...

Apophis' flyby will mark "the first time in space history that a potentially hazardous asteroid is visible to the naked eye," Richard Binzel, a professor of planetary sciences at MIT, said Monday ...

While the internet has been buzzing over the mysterious 3i/Atlas, with some even speculating it could be an alien spacecraft ...

Apophis, an asteroid measuring about 1,100 ft. across, is due to pass within roughly 20,000 mi. from Earth on April 13, 2029. Credit: ESA The European Space Agency (ESA) has given the provisional ...

In a bit of ominous news befitting a Friday the 13th: It turns out that the asteroid Apophis could have a very small chance of colliding into Earth in five years, when it is expected to make a close ...

NASA's Small Bodies Assessment Group wants the agency to send spacecraft to visit the asteroid Apophis before it makes a close approach to Earth in 2029. When you purchase through links on our site, ...

On Friday, 13, 2029, Earth will have a fascinating and intimidating visitor in the form of the "God of Destruction" asteroid Apophis. The asteroid — named after the Egyptian serpent god of chaos and ...

ST. LOUIS (KTVI) — An asteroid the size of three football fields will pass by a star and be visible from Earth early Monday morning. But have no fear, there is no danger of it hitting our planet. With ...