In a bit of ominous news befitting a Friday the 13th: It turns out that the asteroid Apophis could have a very small chance of colliding into Earth in five years, when it is expected to make a ...

Apophis is projected to pass within 20,000 miles of our planet’s surface on April 13 2029. The menacing asteroid will harmlessly pass by, astronomers say. Apophis measures nearly a quarter of a ...

The European Space Agency has given the go-ahead for initial work on a mission to visit an asteroid called (99942) Apophis. If approved at a key meeting next year, the robotic spacecraft ...

The European Space Agency is fast-tracking a new mission called Ramses, which will fly to near-Earth asteroid 99942 Apophis and join the space rock in 2029 when it comes very close to our planet ...

The European Space Agency has announced that its new Ramses spacecraft may accompany the asteroid Apophis before and after its safe, albeit rather close, pass of Earth. The space rock, measuring ...

An artist's rendition of Apophis, happily soaring through space and not crashing into any planets. © The Planetary Society; CC BY-NC 3.0 Asteroid Apophis doesn’t ...

In April 2029, a 20-million ton asteroid once thought to pose a potentially catastrophic collision risk with the Earth will fly by our home. Apophis, named for the Egyptian god of chaos and evil ...

The asteroid is named Apophis, and it will come closer to Earth than the satellites that make weather monitoring possible and about 10 times closer than the moon. “Nature is performing this once ...

The European Space Agency has given the go-ahead for initial work on a mission to visit an asteroid called (99942) Apophis. If approved at a key meeting next year, the robotic spacecraft ...