In its preliminary data release, taken from just seven nights of observations, the powerful Vera C. Rubin Observatory has ...

An artist’s illustration depicts 2025 MN45—the fastest-rotating asteroid with a diameter over 500 meters that scientists have ...

Astronomers say the Vera C. Rubin Observatory has detected an asteroid that spins faster than other space rocks of its size.

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

Scientists have discovered a “record-breaking” asteroid that is nearly the size of eight football fields. The object, known ...

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory began studying the heavens from a Chilean mountaintop last spring, and its "first light" images ...

Scientists at the Vera C. Rubin Observatory have identified the fastest-ever spinning asteroid larger than half a kilometer ...

Lying between Mars and Jupiter is a massive ring of rock debris—the asteroid belt. Now thin, it’s fading away gradually. In a new study, planetary scientist Julio A. Fernández of Uruguay’s Universidad ...

We’ve all seen this happen in a science-fiction movie: our plucky heroes jump into their ramshackle spaceship and escape the bad guys by flying through the treacherous asteroid belt, where huge rocks ...

Between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter lies a ring-shaped region called the asteroid belt, home to the vast majority of our solar system’s space rocks. The asteroid belt is as old as the solar system ...

Grab-and-go missions to asteroids have provided some of the most scientifically valuable samples since the Apollo ...