(CNN) — After successfully delivering NASA’s first asteroid sample collected in space, the OSIRIS-REx mission, now renamed OSIRIS-APEX, is embarking on a new journey — this time to study an ...

An asteroid named for the ancient Egyptian god of darkness and disorder may not pose a hazard to Earth, but that does not mean Earth is not a hazard to it. When asteroid 99942 Apophis flies ...

A recent study led by Ronald-Louis Ballouz from Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory suggests that the ...

Apophis, also known as Apep, Apepi, or Aapep, was the god of darkness and chaos in the glory days of ancient Egypt. ... The mission is named, somewhat fittingly, after an Egyptian pharaoh: Ramses.

The asteroid, named after the Egyptian god of chaos, will pass within 20,000 miles of Earth on April 13, ... The deity is also linked to earthquakes, thunder, darkness, storms, ...

Apophis, measuring 1,230 feet in length, is named after Apep, the Egyptian god of darkness and disorder. Asteroids like Apophis typically have weathered surfaces from meteoroid impacts, a process ...

MIRANDA KRESTOVNIKOFF: According to ancient Egyptian myths, there was once, in the middle of eternal darkness, an endless ocean of lifeless water. Out of this ocean sprang the first mound of earth ...

Darkness has swept across the Nile Delta. The sacred city of Buto's usual luster has been blanketed in shadow. Pharaoh Shepsekaf, the reigning ruler of the fourth Egyptian dynasty, is shaken.