The European Space Agency (ESA) has selected Tyvak to build the first CubeSat for the Rapid Apophis Mission for Space Safety ...

The hefty space rock 2014 TN17 is large enough to wipe out a city, but it will pose no risk to our planet when it sails by ...

Hollywood films would have us believe the best way to deal with an Earth-threatening asteroid is to blast it out of orbit. But the European Space Agency (ESA) is looking at a far subtler approach to ...

Last year, ESA announced that it planned to rendezvous with the asteroid 99942 Apophis, a cruise ship-sized rock, which makes an exceptionally close flyby of Earth in April 2029, when it will be ...

The spacecraft, renamed OSIRIS-APEX, is now on its way to explore asteroid Apophis. All these missions, and more, have allowed scientists to study the composition and particle size of several ...

Is an asteroid going to hit Earth in 2036? Near-Earth asteroid 99942 Apophis is another potentially hazardous asteroid. It has a diameter of 1,210 feet (370 meters), and in 2004, initial ...

Fortunately, this is why we know that we don’t have to worry about asteroid 99942 Apophis, as it is officially known, for at least the next century. When it was first discovered, its orbit was ...

The asteroid Bennu is puzzling scientists, with samples from the space rock showing weirder properties than they expected. These include extremely high nitrogen levels and improbably magnetic ...

One example is ongoing efforts to win support for a mission to Apophis, an asteroid that will make a close flyby of the Earth in 2029. NASA has yet to greenlight a dedicated mission to Apophis ...

GRAND FORKS, ND — Astronomers have turned their high-powered telescopes toward a 100-meter wide asteroid hurtling in its orbit through the Milky Way galaxy and are hoping it doesn’t collide wi ...

While the team works on this, NASA's OSIRIS-REx has been renamed OSIRIS-APEX, and will attempt to get up close to asteroid 99942 Apophis following a close encounter by the asteroid with Earth in 2029.

The 99942 Apophis asteroid will brush past Earth at a safe but close distance of only 31,000 kilometers (19,600 miles) on the 13th of April, 2029. The flyby, which will bring the giant space rock ...