The platypus is one of evolution's lovable, oddball animals. The creature seems to defy well-understood rules of biology by ...

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory has identified asteroid 2025 MN45, a 710-metre-wide object spinning once every 1.88 minutes.

Scientists discover asteroid spinning once every 1.88 minutes—the fastest rotation ever found for a large space rock. Five ...

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

2025 MN45 isn't the overall spin-rate record holder. Astronomers have found a number of small asteroids — those just a few ...

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 have finally watched a black hole do something Albert Einstein only described on paper: twist the very fabric of ...

WASHINGTON, Dec 8 (Reuters) - Scientists have observed the largest-known rotating structure in the cosmos - a gargantuan thread-like assemblage of hundreds of galaxies, gas and dark matter that makes ...

United States Marine Corps Marines from the Marine Rotational Force – Darwin prepare to board a plane to depart Australia at RAAF Base Darwin. Australian Defense Department Marine Rotational ...

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An enormous asteroid is approaching Earth at 24,136 miles per hour—and will be at its closest to us in two days' time. The space rock—dubbed "2025 FA22"—is 520 feet across. On a cosmic scale, it will ...