Scientists have discovered the fastest-spinning asteroid sized over 0.3 miles in diameter, which is rotating about once every ...

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

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

In its preliminary data release, taken from just seven nights of observations, the powerful Vera C. Rubin Observatory has ...

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

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

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

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

"This was many times more energetic than any similar event and more than any known explosion powered by the collapse of a ...

Research led by Daniel Ivanov, a physics and astronomy graduate student in the Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences at Pitt, uncovered a contender for one of the earliest observed spiral ...

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