The Vera Rubin Observatory has found 19 new "superfast rotator" asteroids, including the fastest-spinning big space rock ever ...
An artist’s illustration depicts 2025 MN45—the fastest-rotating asteroid with a diameter over 500 meters that scientists have ...
The idea of an asteroid hitting Earth can be a scary one, but it can be pretty hard to comprehend just how scary such an impact might potentially be. To put things in context, many people who have ...
The Vera C. Rubin Observatory has identified asteroid 2025 MN45, a 710-metre-wide object spinning once every 1.88 minutes.
Learn how the world’s “largest digital camera” has detected approximately 2,000 new asteroids, a collection that includes ...
Astronomers analyzing data from NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory, jointly funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation and ...