Obviously, if the giant asteroid Apophis were to collide with something else on its way to Earth, its path could change, or a field of debris could indeed hit the planet. To see if that was ...

A giant asteroid is set to blast past the Earth at ... tracking the 23-foot wide space rock which weighs as much as a blue whale since it started to approach our one and only planet.

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) is monitoring asteroid 2016 AX165, which will pass Earth on 20 February 2025. This near-Earth object, about 260 feet in diameter, poses no threat to our planet.