NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks to astronomer Sarah Greenstreet about her team's new discovery of the fastest-spinning large asteroid known to man.

Learn how the world’s “largest digital camera” has detected approximately 2,000 new asteroids, a collection that includes some of the fastest-spinning mini-planets known to science.

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

Chile's Vera Rubin Observatory, boasting the world's largest digital camera, has discovered a mountain-sized asteroid, 2025 ...

A team led by University of Washington astronomers has discovered the fastest-ever spinning asteroid with a diameter over half a kilometer. The asteroid — found while analyzing data from the NSF–DOE ...

A swarm of large asteroids likely lurking around Venus could one day pose an "invisible threat" to Earth if left unchecked, astronomers have warned in new research. The giant space rocks are believed ...

A huge asteroid discovered by scientists has broken records by spinning faster than any other asteroid of its size ...

The asteroid known as 2024 YR4 is out of sight yet still very much on scientists’ minds. The building-sized object, which initially appeared to be on a potential collision course with Earth, is ...

Asteroids might seem like peaceful drifters suspended in space, but they’re really disturbed, spinning and tumbling in complex motion that holds clues to their past. A new study presented at the ...

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It was only a few days ago that a certain fear-mongering website named, ahem, Ars Technica published an article about the prospect of a killer asteroid striking the planet Earth in the year 2032. At ...