China conducted a total of 93 space launches in 2025, setting a new national record for orbital launches in a single year.

Way out there in the asteroid belt is an object that's spinning so fast, scientists are surprised it hasn't flown apart.

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory has already delivered spectacular images. On them, researchers have found an asteroid that ...

The asteroid, 2025 MN45, completes a full rotation once every 1.88 minutes, meaning it must have a very high strength to keep ...

At 710 meters (just under half a mile) wide, this space rock sets a record for how fast it spins on its axis: about one ...

Physicists at the University of Oxford have contributed to a new study which has found that iron-rich asteroids can tolerate ...

2025 MN45 isn't the overall spin-rate record holder. Astronomers have found a number of small asteroids — those just a few ...

Researchers have proposed a theoretical timepiece, dubbed the "CRASH Clock," which tells us how quickly satellites would ...

An artist’s illustration depicts 2025 MN45—the fastest-rotating asteroid with a diameter over 500 meters that scientists have ...

Scientists at the Vera C. Rubin Observatory have identified the fastest-ever spinning asteroid larger than half a kilometer ...

When you find 1,900 previously unknown space rocks within seven nights of starting operations, there are bound to be some ...

🚨Record-breaking asteroid spotted by NSF–DOE @VRubinObs 🚨 Using early data from the LSST Camera, astronomers have ...