These images of asteroid Apophis were recorded in March 2021 by radio antennas at the Deep Space Network’s Goldstone complex in California and the Green Bank Telescope in West Virginia.

Apophis offers a rare opportunity for research ... flies briefly past the asteroid when it is closest to Earth and takes photos. This would demonstrate that such a mission is also possible with ...

But now that we’re here, it would be nice if we could avoid future asteroid calamities, and one of the more threatening space rocks in our neck of the stellar woods is known as 99942 Apophis.

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But what those confirmations didn’t take into account was whether or not Apophis would collide with other asteroids along the way. Obviously, if the giant asteroid Apophis were to collide with ...

Apophis, a large asteroid measuring 340-450 meters, will pass within 37,000 kilometers of Earth in April 2029. Though visible to the naked eye, the chance of collision remains low. Research ...

The energy released from such an event would be equivalent to 30 billion tons of TNT. Asteroid Apophis was once considered a high-risk object but was downgraded after a 2021 observation clarified ...