The Ramses mission to asteroid Apophis is set to launch in 2028. It forms the cornerstone of a planetary defence programme designed to protect our planet from the risk of collision with near-Earth ...

The asteroid Apophis, which is about the size of the Eiffel Tower, is set to come within 20,000 miles of Earth with NASA ...

NASA has confirmed that the Apophis asteroid, dubbed the 'God of Chaos', will make a historic close approach to Earth.

It will come within around 20,000 miles of the Earth’s surface, which is closer than some satellites - in a truly ...

Hidden cost of war . Multiple oil spills are visible from space after Iranian and US‑Israeli strikes hit oil facilities and ...

Named Apophis after the ancient Egyptian God of evil and destruction, the space rock spans about 1,230 feet — even longer ...

The infamous Apophis asteroid is now less than three years from its historic 2029 Earth flyby, offering a rare science ...

The flyby will be close enough for observers across the Eastern Hemisphere to spot the asteroid without telescopes, marking a ...

On the final day of the Cretaceous period, some 66 million years ago, Earth was teeming with a dazzling variety of dinosaurs.

A space rock the size of a big stadium will pass closer to Earth than some of our own satellites on the evening of April 13, ...

A meteor was spotted in the afternoon of April 7, traveling over a handful of states before disintegrating in South Jersey. According to NASA, witnesses saw the meteor in Connecticut, New York, New ...