An asteroid roughly 1,100 feet wide will pass within about 20,000 miles of Earth’s surface on April 13, 2029, threading a gap ...

NASA’s OSIRIS-APEX spacecraft will chase asteroid Apophis after the space rock swings past Earth on April 13, 2029, arriving ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. As of April 13, an infamous giant asteroid known as Apophis is now three years away from becoming the first space rock of its size ...

Ninety percent of the world's population could glimpse asteroid Apophis during its once-in-a-millennium close approach to Earth in 2029.

A "potentially hazardous" asteroid is scheduled to pass by Earth in 2029, marking the "closest approach" to the planet by one of its size. The asteroid is called Apophis, a name that comes from the ...

For most people, asteroids are distant objects that remain hidden behind telescope lenses and scientific instruments. That will briefly change in April 2029, when one of the best-known near-Earth ...

In 1,000 days, on April 13, 2029, the near-Earth asteroid Apophis will make one of the closest flybys of a large asteroid ...

During this completely safe pass, asteroid Apophis will appear to the naked eye as a small white dot, slowly crossing the night sky.

As of April 13, an infamous giant asteroid known as Apophis is now three years away from becoming the first space rock of its size to come near Earth in recorded human history. Roughly the size of ...

A large asteroid about the size of the Eiffel Tower is expected to come unusually close to Earth in 2029, but there is no risk of impact, scientists said. The asteroid, named Apophis, will pass around ...