The OSIRIS-REx spacecraft's name has been changed to OSIRIS-APEX for its new mission to asteroid Apophis. See its journey to ...

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Asteroid 99942 Apophis, known as the 'God of Chaos,' will make a close approach to Earth in April 2029. Although it poses no immediate threat, NASA plans to study it using the OSIRIS-APEX spacecraft.

This video depicts the flight path 99942 Apophis will take past Earth over 5 hours and 17 minutes on April 13 and 14, 2029. The blue dots are geostationary satellites in Earth orbit; the moon is too ...

Once feared to pose a threat to Earth, asteroid Apophis is now a subject of immense scientific interest. Discovered in 2004, the 450-meter-wide asteroid will pass remarkably close to Earth on April 13 ...

A huge asteroid called 99942 Apophis, nicknamed the "God of Chaos", has been reassessed by scientists, raising worries it might collide with Earth. Apophis, which was discovered in 2004, was once ...

In April 2029, a 20-million ton asteroid once thought to pose a potentially catastrophic collision risk with the Earth will fly by our home. Apophis, named for the Egyptian god of chaos and evil and ...

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 ...

In 2029, a giant asteroid named Apophis will zoom past Earth, coming crazy close—closer than some satellites! Scientists say it won’t hit us (phew!), but the encounter could still be wild. The massive ...