Rocky Future Don't panic, but the odds of a massive asteroid named Apophis smashing into Earth just got a little bit higher.
New simulations reveal that there is an extremely small chance that the "city-killer" asteroid Apophis could be nudged onto a ...
EARTH could collide with its deadly cosmic neighbour, Apophis, an asteroid 1,100ft (335m) wide, should a rare chain event ...
There is a minuscule albeit non-zero chance that a massive asteroid Apophis, dubbed the God of Chaos, could collide with Earth. This may happen during its near approach in 2029.
But the real killer, most likely ... change if Apophis collides into another object along the way, like a smaller asteroid. According to Wiegert, almost none of the calculations on its trajectory ...