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

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

Top panel shows a wide-angle view of the main nucleus of the crumbling asteroid P/2012 F5 and smaller fragments embedded in a long dust trail. Bottom panel shows a close-up view with the trail removed ...

A newly spotted space rock has just shattered the speed record for large asteroids, spinning so quickly that by all ...

Fastest-Rotating Rock Known, Larger Than 6 Football Fields, Is Rubin Observatory’s First Discovery In A Nutshell Record breaker: Asteroid MN45 spins once every 1.88 minutes (about 765 times per day) ...

An artist’s conception zeroes in on a main-belt asteroid called 2025 MN45, which makes a full rotation in less than two minutes. (Credit: NSF-DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory / NOIRLab / SLAC / AURA / P.

Using data from NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope, scientists have identified the three fastest-spinning brown dwarfs ever found. More massive than most planets but not quite heavy enough to ignite like ...

To demonstrate the system, the researchers showed that it could reconstruct real-time high-quality still images of a model jet engine rotating at about ∼2170 rpm (top images) and a CPU cooling fan ...

Objects rotating at high speed are a feature of modern engineering in various fields, and online inspection of them is a critical challenge. A project at China's Jinan University has now developed a ...

Learn how the world’s “largest digital camera” has detected approximately 2,000 new asteroids, a collection that includes ...