Apophis is set to fly past the Earth on April 13, 2029, and return every few years into the distant future. But scientists ...

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 ...

When the 99942 Apophis was first discovered in 2004, we all thought we were doomed. After all, the 1,100 ft asteroid was named after the demon serpent who represented pure evil and chaos in ...

Scientists confirm there is no risk to our planet. Asteroid 2024 XS measures around 97 feet in width. It will make its closest approach at 1.99 million miles. Researchers view this as an ...

Nostradamus has also predicted that in 2025, a gigantic asteroid, ominously dubbed the “Harbinger of Fate,” will come dangerously close to colliding with Earth. “From the cosmos, a fireball will rise, ...

On December 3, a tiny asteroid just 68 centimeters in size known as COWECP5 entered Earth's atmosphere, according to information from NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA). This caught the ...

Also known as asteroid 99942, Apophis was first discovered by astronomers Roy Tucker, David Tholen, and Fabrizio Bernardi at the Kitt Peak National Observatory in Tucson, Arizona, in 2004.

The first asteroid hit a place that is in Russia today and created a crater 60 miles wide. The other impact happened in the Chesapeake Bay on the US's East Coast about 36 million years ago. The study ...

A small asteroid was spotted on a collision course with Earth. (X/@esa) A small asteroid illuminated the Siberian night sky early on December 4. The European Space Agency (ESA) reported that the ...

Asteroid C0WEPC5 entered Earth's atmosphere at 1:15 a.m. local time on Dec. 4 over northeastern Siberia. A small asteroid lit up the skies over northern Siberia Wednesday (Dec. 4) after burning up ...

That's not to say that asteroid doesn't already exist—we might just not have found it yet. NEO Surveyor, a NASA mission designed to launch in 2028 to find 90% of all NEOs larger than 140m in ...