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During the interview, Tyson claimed that the possibility of Apophis impacting the Earth on April 13, 2036, was one in 45,000.
Asteroids frequently brush past our planet. However, Apophis, dubbed the "God of Chaos," may well write a new chapter in this ...
The OSIRIS-REx spacecraft's name has been changed to OSIRIS-APEX for its new mission to asteroid Apophis. See its journey to ...
Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson once shared a terrifying prediction about when an asteroid could possibly hit Earth.
In a $19.5 million NASA-funded mission, a team at George Mason University is heading a project to construct and launch a ...
( NewsNation) — Scientists say an asteroid known as the “God of Chaos” has a slightly increased chance of impacting the Earth in 2029, but only if a very unlikely series of events plays out.
NASA also plans to launch OSIRIS-APEX, a follow-up mission to study the asteroid Apophis during its close approach to Earth ...
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The asteroid is expected to make a “horseshoe path” around Earth over the next two months, researchers wrote in a recent ...