Japan will join a European project to observe the Apophis asteroid when it passes close to the Earth by providing the H3 ...

Asteroid Apophis will pass close to Earth in 2029, but scientists have confirmed there's no threat of a collision. Find out ...

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In 2029, a massive asteroid called Apophis is expected to whizz close to Earth. So close, in fact, that it will come within one tenth of the distance between the Earth and Moon.

NASA announced this week that Earth will remain safe from the threat of a specific asteroid’s impact for at least the next 100 years. According to the space agency, new telescope observations ...

With asteroid Apophis or any asteroid we know about now, there’s no need to panic,” said Will Snyder, manager at the St. Louis Science Center McDonnell Planetarium.

48 years. That’s how many years it is estimated Earth has until the Apophis (God of chaos) asteroid is predicted to hit Earth. While it was first calculated that the Apophis asteroid would just ...