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

A chance encounter with another asteroid could steer Apophis destructively close to Earth during a future passage.

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

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

Asteroid 99942 Apophis, known as the 'God of Chaos,' will make a close approach to Earth in April 2029. Although it poses no immediate threat, NASA plans to study it using the OSIRIS-APEX spacecraft.

Initially discovered in 2004, Apophis surpasses the size of India's largest aircraft carrier, the INS Vikramaditya, and the ...

Paul Wiegert, an astronomer at Canada's Western University, has published a study in The Planetary Science Journal warning ...

Beyond that, both NASA and the European Space Agency have designs on sending uncrewed spacecraft to study Apophis during the flyby in five years. The European Space Agency, NASA's counterpart ...