Apophis will come close enough to Earth to be seen with the naked eye in 2029, but a chance encounter with another asteroid ...

( NewsNation) — Scientists say an asteroid known as the “God of Chaos” has a slightly increased chance of impacting the Earth ...

Asteroid Apophis doesn’t currently pose a threat to Earth when it passes by in a few years, but an astrophysicist has ...

New simulations reveal that there is an extremely small chance that the "city-killer" asteroid Apophis could be nudged onto a ...

Astronomer Paul Wiegert had found a scenario in which Apophis could be sent careening into Earth in 2029. But we’d have to be ...

The chance of an unknown asteroid hitting Apophis off its current course at all was less than one-in-a-million. And the odds that such an impact would send it hurtling toward Earth in 2029 was ...

Asteroid Apophis was initially discovered in 2004 and immediately became a talking point as potentially hazardous asteroids, ...

The study hints at a slim chance that asteroid Apophis could hit Earth in 2029 due to a potential impact with another asteroid before it passes by.

An astrophysicist at the University of Western Ontario finds that the odds of the asteroid 99942 Apophis striking Earth are slightly higher than previously thought. In his study, published in The ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. There is a slim but overlooked risk that the "God of Chaos" asteroid Apophis could hit Earth ...