The European Space Agency (ESA) has selected Tyvak to build the first CubeSat for the Rapid Apophis Mission for Space Safety ...
A large asteroid barely known to science zoomed past ... are also on track to make close approaches. The 400m-wide Apophis will pass roughly 30,000km from Earth on April 13, 2029, he said.
The hefty space rock 2014 TN17 is large enough to wipe out a city, but it will pose no risk to our planet when it sails by ...
The 2024 YR4 is the greatest risk mankind has faced from an asteroid in the past 20 years, second only to 99942 Apophis, which, in 2004, had a 2.7 percent chance of colliding with the Earth in 2029.