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

An international team of astronomers has discovered an asteroid that spins so fast, it should've torn itself apart.

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

The asteroid, discovered using the Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile, is one of 19 large fast-rotating asteroids found with ...

Astronomers have spotted an asteroid the size of nearly eight football fields, with the help of the largest digital camera in ...

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

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

The space rock, known as “2026 AJ” and 40 feet in diameter, is hurtling towards our planet at around 20,500 miles per hour.

A huge asteroid discovered by scientists has broken records by spinning faster than any other asteroid of its size ...

Among the first finds from the Vera C. Rubin Observatory, the discovery hints at a population of exceptionally strong ...

The European Space Agency's (ESA) Hera spacecraft is scheduled to arrive at the binary asteroid system Didymos in November ...

The first full moon of 2026 is the Wolf Moon. And it’s a supermoon —the fourth in a row! As per the Farmer’s Almanac, it will ...