If scientists are able to inspect it in person, and they find that Mars was indeed once alive with microbes, we would know ...

The solar system’s largest planet shines bright as the Moon wanes and Saturn’s moons dance in the sky this week.

But Rubin’s early data is confounding. Among the newly discovered asteroids, researchers identified 76 with reliable spin ...

Captured by a 3,200-megapixel camera, asteroid 2025 MN45 is a half-mile giant spinning once every 1.88 minutes. This rare ...

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

Physicists at the University of Oxford have contributed to a new study which has found that iron-rich asteroids can tolerate ...

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 ...

Out in the depths of space, somewhere in between Mars and Jupiter, is a newly discovered asteroid that's breaking records.

Scientists have discovered the fastest-spinning asteroid sized over 0.3 miles in diameter, which is rotating about once every ...

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

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