A newly spotted space rock has just shattered the speed record for large asteroids, spinning so quickly that by all expectations it should have torn itself apart. The object, named 2025 MN45, is ...

Haumea is one of the fastest rotating large objects in our solar system. A single day on the dwarf planet is only about 4 Earth hours long. NOVA is available to stream on pbs.org and the free PBS App, ...

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

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An artist’s illustration depicts 2025 MN45—the fastest-rotating asteroid with a diameter over 500 meters that scientists have ever ...

Scientists have discovered the fastest-spinning asteroid sized over 0.3 miles in diameter, which is rotating about once every two minutes. Dubbed 2025 MN45, the space rock is some 2,300 feet across ...

Scientists discovered asteroid 2025 MN45 spins fastest for its size, rotating every 1.88 minutes Asteroid 2025 MN45 is about 2,329 feet wide, roughly the length of eight football fields The asteroid ...

This artist’s illustration depicts 2025 MN 45 — the fastest-rotating asteroid with a diameter over 500 meters that scientists have ever found. The asteroid is shown surrounded by many other asteroids, ...

A British amateur astronomer has discovered the fastest rotating natural object known in our Solar System. His observations, made using a telescope normally shared by school students and professional ...

To demonstrate the system, the researchers showed that it could reconstruct real-time high-quality still images of a model jet engine rotating at about ∼2170 rpm (top images) and a CPU cooling fan ...

Objects rotating at high speed are a feature of modern engineering in various fields, and online inspection of them is a critical challenge. A project at China's Jinan University has now developed a ...

India, Jan. 10 -- SANTIAGO, Chile, January 9 - Astronomers have identified the fastest-spinning large asteroid ever observed, a finding that challenges current understanding of how such space rocks ...