If you were worried about asteroid 99942 Apophis hitting the Earth in 2068, you can relax for at least another century. A new survey by NASA's Center for Near-Earth Object Studies (CNEOS) has ...

The massive Apophis asteroid will not hit Earth for 100 years, Nasa has said. The space agency has announced new telescope observations that have ruled out any chance of rock hitting us anytime soon.

Asteroid Apophis, which was believed to be on a potential collision course for Earth, is no longer going to be an issue for our big blue planet for another 100 years, scientists say. After its ...

A huge asteroid that gained notoriety due to its potential to impact the planet in 2068 won’t strike us after all, new data shows. Asteroid 99942 Apophis was discovered in 2004 and was thought to be ...

The OSIRIS-Rex mission to the asteroid Bennu successfully wrapped up a few months back when the spacecraft returned to near-Earth space and dropped off a package filled with tiny asteroid rocks. While ...

PHILADELPHIA -- An asteroid named for the Egyptian god of chaos and darkness won't be wreaking any havoc on Earth -- at least not this century. That's the good news from NASA's Center for Near-Earth ...

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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 ...

The near-Earth object was thought to pose a slight risk of impacting Earth in 2068, but now radar observations have ruled that out. After its discovery in 2004, asteroid 99942 Apophis had been ...