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

A crop of asteroids discovered by the new Vera C. Rubin Observatory is wowing astronomers, with one of the space rocks ...

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

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

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

Astronomers say the Vera C. Rubin Observatory has detected an asteroid that spins faster than other space rocks of its size.

With a diameter of around 2,300 feet, the newly-detected asteroid completes a full rotation in just under two minutes.

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

Grab-and-go missions to asteroids have provided some of the most scientifically valuable samples since the Apollo ...

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

Choose your fighter for the origin of water on Earth! Was it always here or did it come to this planet from somewhere else in ...

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 ...