Physicists at the University of Oxford have contributed to a new study which has found that iron-rich asteroids can tolerate ...
An artist’s illustration depicts 2025 MN45—the fastest-rotating asteroid with a diameter over 500 meters that scientists have ...
Scientists have discovered a “record-breaking” asteroid that is nearly the size of eight football fields. The object, known ...
Scientists have discovered the fastest-spinning asteroid sized over 0.3 miles in diameter, which is rotating about once every ...
Way out there in the asteroid belt is an object that's spinning so fast, scientists are surprised it hasn't flown apart.
NASA is monitoring a bus-sized asteroid that’s soaring towards Earth at nearly 8,000 miles per hour, according to the space agency's Center for Near Earth Object Studies (CNEOS). Estimated to measure ...
This December's dazzling display comes from a strange asteroid with comet-like behavior—and a tail of debris that astronomers say shouldn’t exist. Hundreds of Geminid meteors blaze across the night ...