Recently, scientists discovered the fastest-spinning large asteroid in the solar system.It’s about the length of eight football fields — but it fully rotates every two minutes, or even a little faster ...

A powerful new telescope spots an unusually large asteroid spinning faster than thought possible, challenging long held ideas ...

A newly spotted space rock has just shattered the speed record for large asteroids, spinning so quickly that by all expectations it should have torn itself apart. The object, named 2025 MN45, is ...

Uranus is the strangest planet in the solar system when it comes to rotation, spinning almost completely on its side. Scientists believe something massive happened early in its history, possibly a ...

NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks to astronomer Sarah Greenstreet about her team's new discovery of the fastest-spinning large asteroid known to man.

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory has identified asteroid 2025 MN45, a 710-meter object spinning at an unprecedented rate of once every 1.88 minutes. This discovery challenges existing models of asteroid ...

Chile's Vera Rubin Observatory, boasting the world's largest digital camera, has discovered a mountain-sized asteroid, 2025 ...