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 ...

But Rubin’s early data is confounding. Among the newly discovered asteroids, researchers identified 76 with reliable spin ...

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

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

Scientists have discovered an asteroid in space roughly the size of eight football fields. The celestial body, named 2025 ...

Learn how the world’s “largest digital camera” has detected approximately 2,000 new asteroids, a collection that includes ...

A NASA spacecraft recently got an up-close look at a strange peanut-shaped space rock floating through the cosmos in the main asteroid belt. Not to worry: Astronomers aren't interested in the small ...

All 19 of the newly identified rapidly rotating asteroids are longer than an American football field, which is approximately ...

According to the team's results, mining undifferentiated asteroids (believed to be the progenitor of chondritic meteorites) ...

If you were to ask a group of dedicated amateur astronomers to list their favorite telescopic targets, few if any would mention asteroids. That's easy to understand. The typical asteroid lacks the jaw ...