In a bit of ominous news befitting a Friday the 13th: It turns out that the asteroid Apophis could have a very small chance ...

In just under half a decade, a 1,000-foot-wide (305-meter-wide) asteroid named after the Egyptian god of chaos and destruction, Apophis, will pass within 30,000 miles (48,300 kilometers ...

Earthlings can breathe a sigh of relief after US space agency Nasa confirmed the planet was "safe" from a once-feared asteroid for the next 100 years at least. Nasa had deemed Apophis to be one of ...

Apophis is set to fly past the Earth on April 13, 2029, and return every few years into the distant future. But scientists ...

Scientists believe the cosmic projectile, named after an ancient Egyptian demon, could come very close to our planet on this ...

The agency has announced an analysis of the trajectory of Apophis, a near-earth asteroid. Apophis, a 1,100-foot asteroid, was thought a possible and worrying candidate for terrestrial collision ...

when Asteroid Apophis—at about 1,230 feet (375 meters) across, larger than 90% of space rocks—safely passes our planet. It will pass just 19,635 miles (31,600 kilometers) from Earth’s ...

Apophis:Asteroids safely fly by Earth all the ... In September 2022, NASA demonstrated that it was possible to nudge an incoming asteroid out of harm's way by slamming a spacecraft into it as ...

The likelihood of the "God of Destruction" asteroid Apophis striking Earth in 2029 is more than 1 in 2 billion, according to Space.com. There's no cause for concern – at least not yet.

New observations have found that the Apophis or ‘God of Chaos’ asteroid, which is the size of three football fields, is speeding up due to the Yarkovsky effect. This is when the asteroid heats ...

As well as Aten asteroids being hard to find because they’re always lost in the sun’s glare—such as the famous asteroid Apophis— asteroids can slightly change their course over time ...