PHILADELPHIA -- An asteroid named for the Egyptian god of chaos and darkness won't be wreaking any havoc on Earth -- at least not this century. That's the good news from NASA's Center for Near-Earth ...

One of the most celebrated space rocks, the asteroid known as Apophis, will make a return to Earth’s vicinity this week. This space rock is some 1,213 feet in length and was discovered in Arizona back ...

If you were worried about asteroid 99942 Apophis hitting the Earth in 2068, you can relax for at least another century. A new survey by NASA's Center for Near-Earth Object Studies (CNEOS) has ...

An astrophysicist at the University of Western Ontario finds that the odds of the asteroid 99942 Apophis striking Earth are slightly higher than previously thought. In his study, published in The ...

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