Researchers predict that up to 7.6 billion people will be able to see the potentially hazardous asteroid Apophis fly past ...

In 1,000 days, on April 13, 2029, the near-Earth asteroid Apophis will make one of the closest flybys of a large asteroid ...

On April 13, 2029, an extraordinary event will take place: the asteroid (99942) Apophis will skim past Earth at a distance of ...

Three years ahead of asteroid Apophis's close but safe pass by Earth, scientists have already charted exactly when and where ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. As of April 13, an infamous giant asteroid known as Apophis is now three years away from becoming the first space rock of its size ...

Ninety percent of the world's population could glimpse asteroid Apophis during its once-in-a-millennium close approach to ...

For most people, asteroids are distant objects that remain hidden behind telescope lenses and scientific instruments. That ...

For a brief stretch on April 13, 2029, a giant space rock will slip closer to Earth than some of the satellites parked high above the planet. That object is Apophis, an asteroid once treated as a ...

An illustration of the asteroid Apophis, which will make a close flyby of the Earth in April 2029. Credit: ESA Science Office We are fewer than four years away from what may be the most significant ...

There are literally thousands of asteroids circling around our planet in the vast solar system of ours, going about their business at various distances from our planet. Only one of them sends shivers ...

An illustration of the asteroid Apophis, which will make a close flyby of the Earth in April 2029. Credit: ESA Science Office SALT LAKE CITY — Two mission concepts are seeking funding to fly by and ...

As of April 13, an infamous giant asteroid known as Apophis is now three years away from becoming the first space rock of its size to come near Earth in recorded human history. Roughly the size of ...