The European Space Agency (ESA) has officially launched its effort to rendezvous with the asteroid Apophis ahead of the space ...

Apophis is a peanut-shaped space rock spanning 1,230-foot (375 meters) across comparable to that of the Eiffel Tower. At this ...

The European Space Agency signed a contract with OHB to begin work on an asteroid mission, but a decision on full funding for the mission is still more than a year away.

Further observations eventually allowed astronomers in 2021 to rule out the possibility of an impact when Apophis makes the close flyby to Earth in April 2029. There's also no risk during another ...

But a close flyby of the asteroid in March 2021 showed Nasa scientists that Apophis won't actually hit Earth for at least 100 years. Researchers at ESA announced in July that they are sending out ...

Apophis is scheduled to make an intimidatingly close flyby of Earth on Friday 13, 2029. The near-Earth object is expected to pass around 19,800 miles (32,000km) of Earth, closer than some ...

A research team used Bennu's tracking data to investigate the potential existence of a fifth fundamental force in the ...

Hera mission, which is traveling to asteroid Didymos and its moon Dimorphos as a follow-up to NASA’s Double Asteroid ...

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 ...