Space agencies from the US, Europe and Japan are all making plans to visit the asteroid Apophis when it makes an extremely ...

Discover the fascinating world of planets, asteroids, and near-Earth objects, including the Apophis asteroid and its potential impact in 2029 ... risks of an asteroid hitting Earth.

The rate places its risk of collision above Asteroid 99942 Apophis, the "God of Chaos", discovered in 2004 that was given a 2.7 percent chance of hitting Earth by 2029. NASA’s Center for Near ...

Lindley Johnson has been a pioneer in blueprinting warning and response scenarios to any potential impact of Earth by an ...

In February 2025, the risk of the asteroid hitting the Earth briefly climbed to 3.1% or ... on its way there and is due to arrive in August 2029. In terms of metal content, asteroids like Psyche ...

The asteroid which scientists originally said had a small chance of hitting Earth is now showing ... with the potential to strike Earth in 2029. In 2021, scientists revised their estimates of ...

Even the most ambitious part of NASA's current plans for human spaceflight involves visiting a celestial body we've already been to: the moon. Astronauts, space buffs and an unimpressed public hunger ...

Critically, the company needed to establish communication while the craft was close to Earth, thus enabling ... hopes to reach the mineral-rich asteroid Psyche by 2029, which some estimate to ...