In a bit of ominous news befitting a Friday the 13th: It turns out that the asteroid Apophis could have a very small chance ...

Using the Goldstone Deep Space Communications Complex and the Green Bank Telescope, scientists gathered high-resolution radar ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

Instead of reaching Apophis after its close flyby of Earth, they could get there months beforehand. This would allow us to map Apophis in its pristine state, before Earth’s gravity potentially ...