Astronomer Paul Wiegert had found a scenario in which Apophis could be sent careening into Earth in 2029. But we’d have to be extremely unlucky.

New simulations reveal that there is an extremely small chance that the "city-killer" asteroid Apophis could be nudged onto a collision course with Earth by another asteroid before it flies past our planet in 2029.

This week, the asteroid Apophis could be slightly more dangerous than first thought, people in Iceland are tossing baby puffins off cliffs, an asteroid impact in the Philippines makes history (and some great videos),

Apophis, a large asteroid measuring 340-450 meters, will pass within 37,000 kilometers of Earth in April 2029. Though visible to the naked eye, the chance of collision remains low.

Apophis will come close enough to Earth to be seen with the naked eye in 2029, but a chance encounter with another asteroid could steer 'God of Destruction' space rock destructively close on a future pass.

Rocky Future Don't panic, but the odds of a massive asteroid named Apophis smashing into Earth just got a little bit higher. Originally projected to harmlessly fly past us in a close approach, a new study published in The Planetary Science Journal suggests that there's actually a fraction of a chance that the 1,

About 66 million years ago, a city-sized asteroid struck Earth, creating a 100-mile-wide crater in Mexico and causing the extinction of the nonavian dinosaurs.

Paul Wiegert, an astronomer at Canada's Western University, has published a study in The Planetary Science Journal warning about a potential collision. He claims that there is a chance less than one in two billion that the 375-metres-wide Apophis may end up striking our planet, Futurism reported.