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

A new study has revealed a large, 700-meter-class asteroid that completes a full rotation in less than two minutes. This is ...

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

"This is the nation's first bridge rotation over an active maglev line, which operates at speeds exceeding 400 km/h, ...

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

Astronomers analyzing data from NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory, jointly funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation and ...

The lightcurve of 2025 MN45 — the fastest-rotating asteroid with a diameter over 500 meters that scientists have ever found. The y-axis shows the asteroid’s brightness, and the x-axis shows its phase, ...

A dead satellite can become a high-speed hazard in an orbit that is already packed with working spacecraft. That risk is why ...

In this Subtext subscriber Q&A–driven episode of the Wine and Gold Talk podcast, Ethan Sands and Chris Fedor dig into the ...

As part of the NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory First Look event in June 2025, Rubin announced that it had observed thousands of asteroids cruising ...

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory has observed a record-breaking ultra-fast-rotating asteroid. The space rock is the ...

With only two weeks left in the regular season, the race for the No. 1 pick in the 2026 NFL Draft is becoming clearer, as are each individual team's biggest needs.