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

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

A record-breaking asteroid has been discovered by the Vera C. Rubin Observatory just seven days after it began its observations. Based on this performance result, scientists and astronomers can expect ...

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 ...

Among the first finds from the Vera C. Rubin Observatory, the discovery hints at a population of exceptionally strong ...

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

2025 MN45 isn't the overall spin-rate record holder. Astronomers have found a number of small asteroids — those just a few ...

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

Grab-and-go missions to asteroids have provided some of the most scientifically valuable samples since the Apollo ...

Choose your fighter for the origin of water on Earth! Was it always here or did it come to this planet from somewhere else in ...

In a scientific first, astronomers have witnessed two objects violently colliding in space, the impact generating a dusty debris cloud reminiscent of cosmic fireworks. The collision occurred 25 ...