Asteroid Apophis is one of the most talked-about near-Earth objects, known for its close flybys and the potential risk it ...

Apophis is a near-Earth asteroid that has captured global attention due to its close approach predicted for the year 2029.

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The 1,100-foot-wide (340 meters) Apophis, also known as asteroid 99942, is set to make a very close, but safe, flyby of Earth on April 13, 2029. The European Space Agency (ESA) is preparing its Ramses ...

President Donald Trump has proposed the single largest year-over-year cut to NASA's budget in his 2026 budget proposal, ...

While Earthlings may be safe, our latest glance of the asteroid in May, courtesy of NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, led ...

Artist's impression of the European Space Agency's Ramses (Rapid Apophis Mission for Space Safety) mission in action. . | Credit: ESA-Science Office Once feared as a threat to Earth, the asteroid ...

Recommendations recently published from the Apophis T-4 Years Workshop held last month in Tokyo called on NASA to act on responses it received from a request for information (RFI) last fall about ...

Earth is perfectly safe from a menacing asteroid known as 2024 YR4 that is big enough to level a city, but the moon? Not so ...

Politecnico di Milano Department of Aerospace Science and Technology’s Francesco Topputo and Fabio Ferrari said: "Being part of the Apophis mission is a tremendous honour. We are developing ...

YR4 and its much larger cousin, the equally infamous Apophis, were the most alarming space rocks astronomers have discovered and studied for decades. Now that the two asteroids have been ruled ...