The sky of the planet Venus could soon be the scene of a meteor shower. This possibility stems from the study of two ...
This coming July, Venus could plow through the dust generated by an asteroid breakup thousands of years ago, potentially ...
A powerful new telescope spots an unusually large asteroid spinning faster than thought possible, challenging long held ideas ...
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 ...
The Vera C. Rubin Observatory has identified asteroid 2025 MN45, a 710-meter object spinning at an unprecedented rate of once every 1.88 minutes. This discovery challenges existing models of asteroid ...