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

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

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

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

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 ...

For large Main Belt asteroids, that break-apart point was set at a spin period of about 2.2 hours – a hard limit suggested by ...

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Far from being solid bullets of rock, many asteroids are fragile clusters of debris that spin so quickly they flirt with self ...

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A key antenna in NASA’s Deep Space Network (DSN) that was damaged last fall is expected to remain offline until May.