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

New simulations reveal that there is an extremely small chance that the "city-killer" asteroid Apophis could be nudged onto a ...

Apophis, the chaos serpent, was a terrifying force in ancient Egyptian mythology, threatening to plunge the world into ...

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 ...

The proposed national US budget for 2026 contains a few nasty surprises for NASA, and some serious disappointments—among them ...

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 ...

One proposed way of examining if such a force could exist is by closely monitoring asteroid trajectories, and few near-Earth ...

The United Nations General Assembly adopted a resolution in December 2016, declaring June 30 International Asteroid Day.

If Apophis were to one day appear to be on a collision course with Earth, scientists will be extremely familiar with it by that point and the work being done between now and 2029 could come in ...

The report comes on the heels of President Donald Trump’s initial budget proposal for NASA, which calls for historically ...