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

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 ...

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

Captured by a 3,200-megapixel camera, asteroid 2025 MN45 is a half-mile giant spinning once every 1.88 minutes. This rare ...

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

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

Usually, asteroids of that size spin at a speed of 2.2 hours to avoid fragmentation, which means that 2025 MN45 is ...

🚨Record-breaking asteroid spotted by NSF–DOE @VRubinObs 🚨 Using early data from the LSST Camera, astronomers have ...

Out in the depths of space, somewhere in between Mars and Jupiter, is a newly discovered asteroid that's breaking records.

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

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

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