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

During this completely safe pass, asteroid Apophis will appear to the naked eye as a small white dot, slowly crossing the ...

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 spacecraft aced its encounter with Mars. Now, mission scientists are studying a trove of data from the flyby in ...

The craft used Mars to get a gravity-assisted boost on the way to its namesake asteroid. The mission isn’t expected to intercept the asteroid until 2029, but in the meantime we’ve got this great view ...

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 ...