The likelihood of the "God of Destruction" asteroid Apophis striking Earth in 2029 is more than 1 in 2 billion, according to Space.com. There's no cause for concern – at least not yet.

Apophis is set to fly past the Earth on April 13, 2029, and return every few years into the distant future. But scientists monitoring Apophis, also known as asteroid 99942, have concluded that ...

A huge asteroid with is set to fly past Earth on Friday the 13th in 2029 - at a distance of less than 20,000 miles. The massive 1,000-metre-wide cosmic projectile is 28 times bigger than the ...

An asteroid detected just hours before impact with Earth burned up in a spectacular fireball over Russia last night. It’s the fourth asteroid to have been detected within just hours before ...

The moon orbits the Earth at an average distance of 238,900 miles. Stock image of an asteroid passing the Earth (main) and a school bus (inset). A bus-sized asteroid is due to pass twice as close ...

But there is no need to panic, as the US space agency’s asteroid tracker says that “potentially hazardous” rock will only pass within 2.4m miles of Earth on 11 December. Although the 330m ...

Earth is bidding farewell to a tiny asteroid that joined its orbit for nearly two months. The asteroid, known as 2024 PT5, is set to be drawn away from Earth by the powerful pull of the sun on Monday.

An asteroid burned up in the Earth’s atmosphere just hours after it was detected last month, the European Space Agency revealed in its latest newsletter. The asteroid, called 2024 UQ ...