The European Space Agency has taken the first big steps toward rendezvousing with the infamous asteroid Apophis during its ...
The OSIRIS-REx spacecraft's name has been changed to OSIRIS-APEX for its new mission to asteroid Apophis. See its journey to ...
The European Space Agency (ESA) has officially launched its effort to rendezvous with the asteroid Apophis ahead of the space ...
Apophis will travel closer to us than any similarly sized astronomical object in recorded history, scientists said. It will ...
The European Space Agency signed a contract with OHB to begin work on an asteroid mission, but a decision on full funding for the mission is still more than a year away.
In 2023, the NASA OSIRIS-REx mission returned a sample of dust and rocks collected on the near-Earth asteroid Bennu. In ...
An international team of scientists put the idea to the test thanks to mountains of data regarding OSIRIS-REx’s recent ...
The team plans to build on their Bennu work in the future with the tracking of the Apophis asteroid, which will pass within 20,000 miles of Earth in 2029. NASA's OSIRIS-APEX spacecraft will ...
Not only that, but if the asteroid, which is named Apophis after an Egyptian god resembling a snake who sowed chaos and disorder, were to hit our planet, it would likely happen on Friday the 13th.
ESA's Hera spacecraft designed to assess NASA's experiment to deflect an asteroid has launched from Cape Canaveral Space ...