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

A newly spotted space rock has just shattered the speed record for large asteroids, spinning so quickly that by all ...

Scientists have set a new record for the world's fastest spinning object by creating a tiny device which spins at a staggering 300 billion revolutions per minute. To put that into perspective, the ...

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

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

Haumea is one of the fastest rotating large objects in our solar system. A single day on the dwarf planet is only about 4 Earth hours long. NOVA is available to stream on pbs.org and the free PBS App, ...

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

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory detected nearly 2,000 new asteroids in about 10 hours, including MM45, rotating in under two ...

Scientists discover asteroid spinning once every 1.88 minutes—the fastest rotation ever found for a large space rock. Five ...

Astronomers analyzing data from NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory, jointly funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation and ...

(Nanowerk News) A dumbbell-shaped nanoparticle powered just by the force and torque of light has become the world's fastest-spinning object. Scientists at Purdue University created the object, which ...

MN45 is the fastest spinning asteroid with a diameter over 500 metres. The asteroid measures 710 meters across, and rotates ...