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The OSIRIS-REx spacecraft's name has been changed to OSIRIS-APEX for its new mission to asteroid Apophis. See its journey to ...

Asteroid 99942 Apophis, known as the 'God of Chaos,' will make a close approach to Earth in April 2029. Although it poses no immediate threat, NASA plans to study it using the OSIRIS-APEX spacecraft.

An astrophysicist at the University of Western Ontario finds that the odds of the asteroid 99942 Apophis striking Earth are slightly higher than previously thought. In his study, published in The ...

This video depicts the flight path 99942 Apophis will take past Earth over 5 hours and 17 minutes on April 13 and 14, 2029. The blue dots are geostationary satellites in Earth orbit; the moon is too ...

This animation shows the distance between the Apophis asteroid and Earth at the time of the asteroid's closest approach. NASA/JPL-Caltech An asteroid that has been nicknamed after the Egyptian God of ...

A huge asteroid called 99942 Apophis, nicknamed the "God of Chaos", has been reassessed by scientists, raising worries it might collide with Earth. Apophis, which was discovered in 2004, was once ...

Once feared to pose a threat to Earth, asteroid Apophis is now a subject of immense scientific interest. Discovered in 2004, the 450-meter-wide asteroid will pass remarkably close to Earth on April 13 ...

An asteroid the size of the Eiffel Tower will zip past Earth Friday (March 5) and be out of our planetary neighborhood until 2029. The space rock, dubbed Apophis (an ancient Egyptian demon), was first ...

If you were worried about asteroid 99942 Apophis hitting the Earth in 2068, you can relax for at least another century. A new survey by NASA's Center for Near-Earth Object Studies (CNEOS) has ...

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