The sun’s light exerts a tiny force called “solar radiation pressure” on objects in space. Lightweight human-made debris, ...

A near-Earth object was likely ejected into space after an impact thousands of years ago. Now it could contribute new ...

NASA's Pioneer 10 spacecraft beams its last data transmission back to Earth. Pioneer 10 was NASA's first mission to the outer ...

The asteroid is estimated to be between 656 and 1,443 feet across, and will pass at 16 times the distance to the moon.

Herd discovered that the sample was chondrite, the most common type of space rock that strikes Earth, and that it likely ...

This is the first time the sound of a meteorite hitting Earth has been recorded, the University of Alberta said.