During this completely safe pass, asteroid Apophis will appear to the naked eye as a small white dot, slowly crossing the ...

Using updated information, NASA scientists have recalculated the path of a large asteroid. The refined path indicates a significantly reduced likelihood of a hazardous encounter with Earth in 2036.

For most people, asteroids are distant objects that remain hidden behind telescope lenses and scientific instruments. That ...

Three years ahead of asteroid Apophis's close but safe pass by Earth, scientists have already charted exactly when and where ...

The date for Armageddon has been set, and it's not going to happen in 2012. In 2004, NASA scientists announced that there was a chance that Apophis, an asteroid larger than two football fields, could ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An artist's illustration of asteroids flying by Earth. Peter Carril/ESA An asteroid called Apophis, after the ancient Egyptian god ...