PHILADELPHIA -- An asteroid named for the Egyptian god of chaos and darkness won't be wreaking any havoc on Earth -- at least not this century. That's the good news from NASA's Center for Near-Earth ...

Could a collision with another object in space set massive asteroid Apophis on a collision course with our planet? This question has been on many minds over the past two decades, but new research ...

Zooming by at a distance less than 20,000 miles from our planet's surface, Apophis will make history on April 13, 2029, as the closest encounter ever recorded with an asteroid of such magnitude.

Maybe one day we'll send a group of oil rig workers off to space on an ill-advised mission to detonate an asteroid from the inside, but it's not going to happen during the current century. Asteroid ...

Astronomers say they'll have to keep an eye on the near-Earth asteroid Apophis to see how much of a danger the space rock poses to our planet during a close pass in 2068. But don't panic: The chances ...

An asteroid named for the Egyptian god of chaos and darkness won’t be wreaking any havoc on Earth – at least not this century. That’s the good news from NASA’s Center for Near-Earth Object Studies, ...