Scientists say an asteroid known as the “God of Chaos” has a slightly increased chance of impacting the Earth in 2029, but ...
Asteroid Apophis doesn’t currently pose a threat to Earth when it passes by in a few years, but an astrophysicist has ...
EARTH could collide with its deadly cosmic neighbour, Apophis, an asteroid 1,100ft (335m) wide, should a rare chain event ...
The results of his study suggest that an object as small as 0.6 meters across could potentially nudge the asteroid onto a ...
New simulations reveal that there is an extremely small chance that the "city-killer" asteroid Apophis could be nudged onto a ...
Astronomer Paul Wiegert had found a scenario in which Apophis could be sent careening into Earth in 2029. But we’d have to be extremely unlucky.
Studying Bennu is imperative because the asteroid has a slim shot of eventually hitting Earth. NASA said in a 2021 paper from ...
It’s extremely unlikely that a massive asteroid will strike Earth anytime soon. According to one astrophysicist, however, ...
Asteroid Apophis was initially discovered in 2004 and immediately became a talking point as potentially hazardous asteroids, ...
A chance encounter with another asteroid could steer Apophis destructively close to Earth during a future passage.
It is expected to fly past Earth at a distance of 7,280,000 kilometres, ensuring a safe passage without any threat of ...