First spotted in June of 2004, near-Earth asteroid 99942 Apophis has caused more than its fair share of drama. Up until last week, a glance at NASA's list of asteroid impact risks would find ...

The good news? The chance of an unknown asteroid hitting Apophis off its current course at all was less than one-in-a-million. And the odds that such an impact would send it hurtling toward Earth in ...

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The uncertainty region of asteroid 2024 YR4's Earth encounter on December 22, 2032 is shown in this diagram. Each orange dot in that uncertainty region represents the closest approach of one possible ...

"Asteroid Apophis has fascinated us as a species since its discovery in 2004: it was the first credible threat from an asteroid to our planet," Wiegert, a member of Western University's Institute for ...

Among them, one asteroid has sparked significant concern: Apophis. This massive asteroid, first discovered in 2004, gained attention due to its high probability of colliding with Earth ...

When asteroid Apophis was discovered in 2004, it appeared to be headed towards Earth with a risk of impact in 2029 that would have had potentially catastrophic results.

The Asteroid 99942 Apophis was discovered in 2004 and for a worrying spell it looked like the 335-metre rock could hit our planet on 13 April 2029. On the Torino scale that classifies the impact risk ...

Researchers at NASA's Near-Earth Object (NEO) program in Pasadena, Calif., said Wednesday that a recalculated orbit of the asteroid Apophis puts the odds of it hitting our planet on April 13, 2036 ...

In late 2004, astronomers calculated a relatively high probability (up to 2.7%) that Apophis could impact Earth on April 13, 2029 — an unprecedented concern for an object of its size.

The specific focus on Apophis was due to an encounter between Earth and this massive asteroid coming up on April 13, 2029. On that date, at around 5:46 p.m. EDT, Apophis will fly past at a ...