While the James Webb Space Telescope provides a window into the ancient universe, SkyMapper focuses on the present by ...

Back in the earlier days of the internet, there was a viral video from a creator called Bill Wurtz called "the history of the ...

Engineers are pushing the limits of space technology to unlock resources hidden within asteroids orbiting Earth.

An international team of astronomers has discovered an asteroid that spins so fast, it should've torn itself apart.

At the WCI Summit in November, researchers shared some of the novel techniques that they are using to improve the human ...

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

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

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

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

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

The asteroid, 2025 MN45, completes a full rotation once every 1.88 minutes, meaning it must have a very high strength to keep ...

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 ...