A quarter-mile-wide asteroid named for an ancient Egyptian god of chaos is on course to swing past Earth closer than the ring of satellites that carry weather forecasts and television signals around ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Among astronomers both professional and amateur, perhaps no asteroid is more notorious than Apophis. If you've heard of Apophis, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Could a collision with another object in space set massive asteroid Apophis on a collision course with our planet? This question ...

When it was first discovered in 2004, Apophis was identified as one of the most dangerous asteroids in that there was a risk that it could impact Earth. But that impact assessment changed over the ...

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, known as the ...

The author of a disaster novel couldn't have dreamed it up any better: On a Friday, the thirteenth of all days, the potentially dangerous asteroid (99942) Apophis will come extremely close to humanity ...

Asteroid Apophis was briefly considered the most dangerous known asteroid. Now we know it won’t hit Earth in 2029, or 2036, or at any time in this century. Still, its close flyby on April 13, 2029, ...

PHILADELPHIA -- An asteroid named for the Egyptian god of chaos and darkness won't be wreaking any havoc on Earth -- at least not this century. That's the good news from NASA's Center for Near-Earth ...

The near-Earth object was thought to pose a slight risk of impacting Earth in 2068, but now radar observations have ruled that out. After its discovery in 2004, asteroid 99942 Apophis had been ...

impact of near-Earth object (NEO) 99942 Apophis (formerly 2004MN4). 2004MN4) might warrant a near-term space mission to the asteroid. The purpose of this mission would be to place an active radio ...

Apophis will make an exceptionally close but safe pass by Earth on April 13, 2029. Its path will dip inside the altitude of many geosynchronous satellites, creating a comparison that sounds alarming ...