99942 Apophis, its official cosmic moniker, was spotted back in 2004 and at one point in 2017, it was believed to have a 2.7% chance of smashing into our world in 2029. Expert stargazers later ...

Using the Goldstone Deep Space Communications Complex and the Green Bank Telescope, scientists gathered high-resolution radar ...

NASA and the European Space Agency also plan to send uncrewed spacecraft to observe Apophis in the years ahead to map and study its surface to gain further insights into near-Earth asteroids.

Instead of reaching Apophis after its close flyby of Earth, they could get there months beforehand. This would allow us to map Apophis in its pristine state, before Earth’s gravity potentially ...

But now that we’re here, it would be nice if we could avoid future asteroid calamities, and one of the more threatening space rocks in our neck of the stellar woods is known as 99942 Apophis.

But what those confirmations didn’t take into account was whether or not Apophis would collide with other asteroids along the way. Obviously, if the giant asteroid Apophis were to collide with ...

Astronomers said the threat posed by Asteroid 2024 YR4 now exceeds the threat posed by the widely known 2004 Apophis asteroid. YR4 still has a 97% chance of missing Earth, but the 3.1% chance it ...

YR4's discovery even prompted no shortage of comparisons to Apophis, its much larger cousin that gave humanity quite a scare in 2004 when calculations initially found that it had a decent chance ...

The threat from space rock 2024 YR4 has surpassed that of Apophis, an asteroid feared by scientists 20 years ago. The danger remains low, but experts are estimating the damage that could be done.