Astronomers estimate that an asteroid this large comes this close to Earth only about once every 7,500 years. It also appears ...

Chinese scientists push for cubesat swarm mission to fly by infamous asteroid Apophis China could launch a mission involving ...

Apophis will miss the Earth," he told Space.com via email. Although Apophis will not hit Earth anytime soon, the asteroid will make a close encounter with our planet on April 13, ...

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 ...

Apophis is projected to pass within 20,000 miles of our planet’s surface on April 13 2029. The menacing asteroid will harmlessly pass by, astronomers say. Apophis measures nearly a quarter of a ...

Apophis hitting Earth is possible, study finds, but very unlikely. Astronomers have long had their eye on the notorious ...

I remember when asteroid Apophis was discovered in 2004 and the alarm it caused in the space community, but it has only been in recent years that its end-time message has become clear to me, ...

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. Skip to main content.

For nearly 20 years, scientists have known an asteroid named Apophis will pass unusually close to Earth on Friday, April 13, 2029. But most officials at the world's space agencies stopped paying ...

Apophis hitting Earth is possible, study finds, but very unlikely. Astronomers have long had their eye on the notorious Apophis, which was initially believed to pose a serious threat to Earth upon ...

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 ...