PHILADELPHIA -- An asteroid named for the Egyptian god of chaos and darkness won't be wreaking any havoc on Earth -- at least not this century. That's the good news from NASA's Center for Near-Earth ...

NASA's OSIRIS-APEX spacecraft captured stunning new images as it whipped past Earth during a high-speed slingshot maneuver, sending the probe on a fast track toward the asteroid Apophis.

In 2029, the asteroid Apophis will skim past Earth closer than many communication satellites, turning a once-feared impact ...

The European Space Agency is sending a probe to intercept an asteroid that will swing uncomfortably close to Earth on a Friday the 13th in 2029. The Ramses mission will fly alongside the asteroid ...

Although it won’t hit Earth, an asteroid once labeled a “city killer” is now back in the spotlight — this time, because it might hit the moon. KTLA spoke with Davide Farnocchia, a navigation engineer ...

What can the close flyby of the asteroid 99942 Adophis to Earth in 2029 teach scientists about the interiors of asteroids and other planetary bodies? This is what a recent study published in The ...

The Earth is safe from the giant asteroid Apophis when it flies extremely close to our planet in 2029, then returns for seconds in 2036, NASA scientists announced today (Jan. 10). The chances of an ...

TOKYO (Reuters) -Japan will join a European project to observe the Apophis asteroid when it passes close to the Earth by providing the H3 rocket as a launch vehicle, a Japanese space agency official ...

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 ...

Studying samples from the Bennu asteroid, researchers have found sugars essential for biology, stardust and ... something ...