When we look up at the night sky, we tend to see asteroids as simple, wandering rocks—the leftover debris from […] ...

Orbital settlements require massive amounts of material, and asteroids provide it cheaply. This episode explains how mining, ...

Scientists all over the world are celebrating because of a discovery made by a telescope built in the Bay Area. New objects, including some of the biggest, fastest moving asteroids ever seen, are ...

Chile's Vera Rubin Observatory, boasting the world's largest digital camera, has discovered a mountain-sized asteroid, 2025 ...

Back in the earlier days of the internet, there was a viral video from a creator called Bill Wurtz called "the history of the ...

It was long thought, up until recently, that asteroids and comets delivered Earth's oceans during the very early Solar System ...

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Scientists find ‘record-breaking’ asteroid nearly the size of eight football fields. Is it close to Earth? - The asteroid was discovered using data from the world’s largest camera ...

NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks to astronomer Sarah Greenstreet about her team's new discovery of the fastest-spinning large asteroid known to man.

A huge asteroid discovered by scientists has broken records by spinning faster than any other asteroid of its size ...

An artist's rendering of 2025 MN45 - the fastest-rotating asteroid with a diameter over 500 meters that scientists have ever found. Photo: NSF-DOE ...

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 ...