The OSIRIS-REx spacecraft's name has been changed to OSIRIS-APEX for its new mission to asteroid Apophis. See its journey to ...

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This video depicts the flight path 99942 Apophis will take past Earth over 5 hours and 17 minutes on April 13 and 14, 2029. The blue dots are geostationary satellites in Earth orbit; the moon is too ...

This animation shows the distance between the Apophis asteroid and Earth at the time of the asteroid's closest approach. NASA/JPL-Caltech An asteroid that has been nicknamed after the Egyptian God of ...

If you were worried about asteroid 99942 Apophis hitting the Earth in 2068, you can relax for at least another century. A new survey by NASA's Center for Near-Earth Object Studies (CNEOS) has ...

An asteroid the size of the Eiffel Tower will zip past Earth Friday (March 5) and be out of our planetary neighborhood until 2029. The space rock, dubbed Apophis (an ancient Egyptian demon), was first ...

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 and ...

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In 2029, a giant asteroid named Apophis will zoom past Earth, coming crazy close—closer than some satellites! Scientists say it won’t hit us (phew!), but the encounter could still be wild. The massive ...