Last month, an asteroid impacted Earth's atmosphere just hours after being detected — somehow, it managed to circumvent ...
The space rock, known as 2024 VM1, will fly past our planet on Wednesday at a minimum distance of around 193,000 miles.
The successor mission, NASA's NEO Surveyor (Near Earth Object Surveyor), will be the first space telescope that will be ...
Asteroid Apophis, or "God of Chaos," will pass close to Earth on April 13, 2029. This rare encounter offers scientists a ...
See asteroid Dimorphous, pre- and post-impact, in this time-lapse of Hubble Space Telescope imagery. The space rock was ...
A new study posits that our planet's gravity will cause seismic activity on Apophis when it makes its close approach in 2029.
A new European Space Agency mission is set to study asteroid Apophis to learn more about how we can handle asteroid threats ...
That small streak of light represented the end of a NASA-led mission suffused with peril. Lauretta and his colleagues had ...
When the 'God of chaos' asteroid Apophis makes an ultraclose flyby of Earth in 2029, our planet's gravity may trigger tremors ...
Averting an asteroid strike will need many of the same skills we must hone to tackle climate change and future pandemics ...
Tiny grains from a distant asteroid are revealing clues to the magnetic forces that shaped the far reaches of the solar ...
Apophis is the ancient Greek name for the Egyptian god of chaos Apep. The deity is also linked to earthquakes, thunder, ...