An asteroid named for the ancient Egyptian god of darkness and disorder may not pose a hazard to Earth, but that does not ...

A new European Space Agency mission is set to study asteroid Apophis to learn more about how we can handle asteroid threats ...

Apophis, which is scheduled to fly by Earth on April 13, 2029, is a massive ‘city-killer’ roughly the size of the Empire ...

Located in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, asteroids come in many shapes and sizes. Most are small, only 10 ...

A close flyby of an asteroid as large as Apophis happens only once every 5,000 to 10,000 years. Scientists plan to learn all they can.

Tiny grains from a distant asteroid are revealing clues to the magnetic forces that shaped the far reaches of the solar ...

We’re showing that, everywhere we look now, there was some sort of magnetic field that was responsible for bringing mass to ...

According to new research, Apophis's brief interaction with Earth’s gravity could unleash tremors and landslides on the asteroid.

The European Space Agency has given the go-ahead for initial work on a mission to visit an asteroid called (99942) Apophis.

The space agency defied incredible odds to get its asteroid-hunting OSIRIS-REx spacecraft off the ground. Since then, the mission has upended everything we know about our solar system.