About 66 million years ago, a city-sized asteroid struck Earth, creating a 100-mile-wide crater in Mexico and causing the ...

Asteroid Apophis doesn’t currently pose a threat to Earth when it passes by in a few years, but an astrophysicist has ...

Apophis will come close enough to Earth to be seen with the naked eye in 2029, but a chance encounter with another asteroid ...

Apophis, a large asteroid measuring 340-450 meters, will pass within 37,000 kilometers of Earth in April 2029. Though visible ...

Astronomer Paul Wiegert had found a scenario in which Apophis could be sent careening into Earth in 2029. But we’d have to be ...

The results of his study suggest that an object as small as 0.6 meters across could potentially nudge the asteroid onto a ...

Asteroid Apophis was initially discovered in 2004 and immediately became a talking point as potentially hazardous asteroids, ...

New simulations reveal that there is an extremely small chance that the "city-killer" asteroid Apophis could be nudged onto a ...

Is the world going to end? This question is trending online as a massive asteroid, Apophis, hurtles towards Earth. What is ...

New research suggests that small asteroid collisions could potentially alter Apophis’s trajectory, raising concerns about future risks.

On Friday, 13, 2029, Earth will witness a notable celestial event as the asteroid Apophis approaches within 19,000 miles ...

It’s extremely unlikely that a massive asteroid will strike Earth anytime soon. According to one astrophysicist, however, ...