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

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

The way an asteroid spins -- either smoothly on its axis or in a chaotic tumble -- depends on how many times it has been hit by other objects in space. At the EPSC-DPS2025 Joint Meeting in Helsinki, ...

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory detected nearly 2,000 new asteroids in about 10 hours, including MM45, rotating in under two ...

Whether an asteroid is spinning neatly on its axis or tumbling chaotically, and how fast it is doing so, has been shown to be dependent on how frequently it has experienced collisions. The findings, ...

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 ...

The European Space Agency’s Gaia mission has cracked the long-standing puzzle of why some asteroids spin smoothly while others tumble unpredictably. New data presented at the EPSC-DPS2025 Joint ...

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

Fig. 6. f = 450 MHz, β = 0°, 30°, 90° double-layer structure scatter wave.