On April 13, 2029, an asteroid roughly 340 meters across will pass within about 32,000 kilometers of Earth’s surface, closer ...

Apophis will make an exceptionally close but safe pass by Earth on April 13, 2029. Its path will dip inside the altitude of ...

The asteroid Apophis, named after the ancient Egyptian god of chaos and destruction, has been dubbed the "most dangerous in ...

The date for Armageddon has been set, and it's not going to happen in 2012. In 2004, NASA scientists announced that there was a chance that Apophis, an asteroid larger than two football fields, could ...

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 ...

Astronomers first predicted that Apophis could get close to Earth in 2029, with another anxiety-inducing flyby scheduled for 2036 Jason Hahn is a former Human Interest and Sports Reporter for PEOPLE.

Is asteroid Apophis ever going to hit Earth? For a while, people had reason to worry. When astronomers first spotted it back in 2004, their early calculations showed a small, but ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Could a collision with another object in space set massive asteroid Apophis on a collision course with our planet? This question ...

The European Space Agency has given the go-ahead for initial work on a mission to visit an asteroid called (99942) Apophis. If approved at a key meeting next year, the robotic spacecraft, known as the ...

An asteroid that has been nicknamed after the Egyptian God of Chaos is speeding up, scientists recently revealed. Scientifically known as 99942 Apophis, the massive, 1,120-foot-wide space rock will ...

The red phone on my desk went off again, flashing and beeping urgently. What was it this time? Another super-villain escaped from prison, threatening the safety of Oakland City again? I pick up the ...