The Apophis asteroid has been a subject of fear and fascination ever since its discovery. With its close approach to Earth ...

The 1,100-foot-wide (340 meters) Apophis, also known as asteroid 99942, is set to make a very close, but safe, flyby of Earth on April 13, 2029. The European Space Agency (ESA) is preparing its ...

"Landing on an asteroid is very challenging," Paolo ... by the safe but very close Earth passage by the asteroid Apophis in April 2029," an Apophis T-4 workshop summary communique stated.

After Rosetta, DART and Hera, Politecnico di Milano is preparing for a return to deep space. In 2028, the university will take part in the European Space Agency’s RAMSES mission to study Apophis which ...

On June 19, 2004, at the Kitt Peak National Observatory in Tucson, Arizona, astronomers Roy Tucker, David Tholen, and Fabrizio Bernardi discovered Asteroid Apophis. This Near-Earth Object (NEO ...

The asteroid, about the size of a 10-story building, has a 4.3% chance of lunar impact, according to NASA's James Webb Space ...

On 13 April 2029 Apophis will be visible from Earth with the naked eye. But observing it up close, from just 31,000 km away, will be instruments and algorithms created at the Politecnico di Milano.

The Ramses spacecraft will rendezvous with asteroid 99942 Apophis, accompanying it during its extraordinarily close yet safe flyby of Earth in 2029. The encounter with provide scientists with a ...

OSIRIS-APEX was meant to spend 18 months mapping the asteroid’s surface and analyzing its chemical makeup during a rendezvous with Apophis in June 2029 after the asteroid has a close encounter ...

Also spiked: a mission that would take a close look at Apophis, a jumbo asteroid that will pass just 20,000 miles from Earth — closer than geosynchronous satellites — on April 13, 2029.