When the 'God of chaos' asteroid Apophis makes an ultraclose flyby of Earth in 2029, our planet's gravity may trigger tremors ...
An asteroid named for the ancient Egyptian god of darkness and disorder may not pose a hazard to Earth, but that does not mean Earth is not a hazard to it.
The asteroid Apophis, nicknamed the "God of Chaos," is set for a near-Earth flyby on November 13, passing within 19,000 miles ...
A new European Space Agency mission is set to study asteroid Apophis to learn more about how we can handle asteroid threats ...
For the past couple of weeks, Earth's orbit has been home to a "mini-moon" the size of a city bus. The celestial object is ...
Observers in the Eastern Hemisphere will be able to see the asteroid streak across the sky with the naked eye. NASA plans to ...
Tuesday marks the tenth anniversary of a huge astronomical milestone: the first and only time we have landed on a comet. The ...
ESA's Hera mission has completed the first critical maneuver on its journey to the Didymos binary asteroid system since ...
A close flyby of an asteroid as large as Apophis happens only once every 5,000 to 10,000 years. Scientists plan to learn all they can.
Humans might be worried about what the potentially hazardous, near-Earth asteroid Apophis may do to our planet once it makes ...
The European Space Agency's Hera mission is on its way toward Mars, where it will get a gravity assist before going on to its asteroid target.