It was previously believed that the 340-metre wide asteroid would pass no closer than 18,300 miles from Earth, but new ...

A new study looking at the potentially hazardous asteroid 99942 Apophis has suggested that the odds of an impact in 2029 or ...

NASA is considering pulling a pair of shelved spacecraft out of storage to spy on notorious asteroid Apophis ahead of its ...

As you read this, an asteroid named 99942 Apophis is spiraling along a trajectory that will bring it uncomfortably close to Earth in about five years’ time. Thankfully, astronomers are very confident ...

As a huge asteroid hurtles towards us astronomers are honing ambitious plans to 'take action to prevent' these world-ending ...

ESA's Space Safety program has received permission to begin preparatory work for the Rapid Apophis Mission for Space Safety (Ramses), aimed at studying asteroid 99942 Apophis. The Shoemaker-Levy 9 ...

A massive asteroid, named 99942 Apophis - which translates to "God of chaos" and is larger than the Eiffel Tower - is set to make an "exceptionally close" pass by Earth in 2029. If it were to ...

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 ...

Or a shotgun shell? An armour-piercing warhead? Or a flash-bang grenade? We know the asteroid 99942 Apophis, named after the ancient Egyptian God of Darkness and Chaos, is the size of a skyscraper.

Researchers said the technology could be used in the treatment of brain aneurysms, which cause about 500,000 deaths globally ...

The study was led by astrophysicists at the University of Colorado at Boulder and they took observations from NASA's New ...