Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A crop of asteroids discovered by the new Vera C. Rubin Observatory is wowing astronomers, with one of the space rocks spinning at ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. At 710 meters (just under half a mile) wide, this space rock sets a record for how fast it spins on its axis: about one rotation ...

A newly discovered asteroid named 2024 YR4 now has a 2.2% chance of affecting Earth in 2032 after recent observations.

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 new telescope in Chile has discovered a rapid asteroid as wide as eight football fields, making full spins in less than two minutes. The Vera C. Rubin Observatory, built to repeatedly photograph the ...

The Bennu asteroid, a space rock not too far from Earth that is rich in carbon, continues to be a trove of information for scientists keen to learn about how life may have begun in our solar system.