When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Our solar system's most infamous asteroid will pass by Earth on Friday (March 5), and with a high ...

An asteroid with a small chance of hitting Earth in 2068 will swing past our planet in the coming days, providing a rare opportunity for astronomers to observe this potentially hazardous object. For ...

One of the NEAs, 99942 Apophis, which was discovered in 2004, is arriving on (of all the freaking dates) Friday the 13th in ...

Could a collision with another object in space set massive asteroid Apophis on a collision course with our planet? This question has been on many minds over the past two decades, but new research ...

On March 5, wave hello to the most infamous asteroid that won't slam into Earth in 2029. Scientists sure will. Astronomers first spotted the space rock now known as Apophis in 2004. It's precisely the ...

Good news from NASA: Earth is safe from the dangerous asteroid 99942 Apophis for the next 100 years. So if you'd put this on your apocalyptic bingo card, you'll need to print new ones. Apophis was ...

The asteroid Apophis is due to make a close approach to Earth this week, and scientists are preparing to observe the flyby. The space rock, thought to be between 310 and 680 meters (1,017 ft to 2,230 ...

Asteroid Apophis will make a historic close approach to Earth on April 13, 2029, passing within 32,000 kilometers. While ...

There is no risk of Apophis impacting our planet for at least a century. The Empire-State-Building-sized asteroid zooms by Earth roughly once per decade. Apophis will come so close in 2029 that it’ll ...

An asteroid named for the Egyptian god of chaos and darkness won’t be wreaking any havoc on Earth – at least not this century. That’s the good news from NASA’s Center for Near-Earth Object Studies, ...