ESA is preparing a mission to study and land on asteroid Apophis during its close encounter with Earth in 2029. NASA is also looking into a possible Apophis effort but faces funding issues.

On April 13, 2029, the space rock is scheduled to approach Earth, coming within 20,000 miles (32,000 kilometers) of our planet's surface. The event will mark the closest Earth flyby of an asteroid ...

Scientists don't intend to allow the rare close passage of a space rock of this size to go ... because Earth experiences just once such event every millennium. The goal? To collect data that ...

Computer simulations reveal that the close flyby of Apophis, the "God of Chaos" asteroid, in 2029 still poses no risk ... possibility of such an unlikely event was evaluated," lead study author ...

The good news is that an utterly wild series of events ... April 2029 flyby of Earth. NASA’s OSIRIS-APEX Brushes the Sun on Its Way to New Asteroid Target In addition, the European Space ...

Researchers announced that we may be able to receive a radio signal reply from extraterrestrial life as early as 2029 ... happening, but it is not impossible. The team followed deep-space radio ...

SPACE is a dangerous place for us humans ... Apophis is set to fly past the Earth on April 13, 2029, and return every few years into the distant future. But scientists monitoring Apophis, also ...