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

Further observations eventually allowed astronomers in 2021 to rule out the possibility of an impact when Apophis makes the ...

(NewsNation) — Scientists say an asteroid known as the “God of Chaos” has a slightly increased chance of impacting the Earth in 2029, but only if a very unlikely series of events plays out.

The next and closest will occur on Friday, April 13, 2029, when Apophis will pass 38,000 kilometers from Earth’s center (32,000 kilometers from its surface) and be visible to the naked eye.

In 2029, Earth will have a hair-raisingly close encounter with asteroid 99942 Apophis, a colossal space rock that could wreak havoc if it were to hit us—but it’ll come shockingly close.

In five years, as the asteroid Apophis, dubbed the ‘God of Chaos’, passes close to Earth, scientists predict that the planet’s gravity could trigger “astroquakes” on the asteroid’s ...

Production at Halleck Creek could start in 2029, Gibbs said. With a JORC-compliant resource of more than 2.6 billion tonnes total rare earth oxides, Halleck Creek hosts one of the largest deposits of ...