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

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) ...

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 ...

With a diameter of around 2,300 feet, the newly-detected asteroid completes a full rotation in just under two minutes.

The Vera Rubin Observatory has found 19 new "superfast rotator" asteroids, including the fastest-spinning big space rock ever found.

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🚨Record-breaking asteroid spotted by NSF–DOE @VRubinObs 🚨 Using early data from the LSST Camera, astronomers have ...

A crop of asteroids discovered by the new Vera C. Rubin Observatory is wowing astronomers, with one of the space rocks spinning at a record-breaking speed.

2025 MN45 is the fastest spinning asteroid with a diameter over 500 metres. The asteroid measures 710 meters across, and ...

All 19 of the newly identified rapidly rotating asteroids are longer than an American football field, which is approximately 295 feet long.