Named Apophis after the ancient Egyptian God of evil and destruction, the space rock spans about 1,230 feet — even longer ...

A rare asteroid will soon be visible to the naked eye in a rare celestial event, according to astronomers. Asteroid 99942 ...

It will zoom by so close that it will be seen with the naked eye. It will be one of the closest passes of an object of the size, according to Space.com. Apophis will be about 20,000 miles from Earth ...

A rare, colossal-sized asteroid is on course to fly by Earth — and will come closer to our planet than any other rocks of its ...

With a mean diameter of 340 meters (1,115 feet), the asteroid has a long axis of at least 450 meters (1,480 feet). An ...

For nearly 20 years, scientists have known an asteroid named Apophis will pass unusually close to Earth on Friday, April 13, 2029. But most officials at the world’s space agencies stopped paying much ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. (NewsNation) — Scientists say an asteroid ...

For a brief stretch on April 13, 2029, a giant space rock will slip closer to Earth than some of the satellites parked high ...

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 ...

Artist’s concept of NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft collecting a sample from the asteroid Bennu. NASA spacecraft OSIRIS-REx has successfully dropped-off a sample from an asteroid—and immediately left to ...