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

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Astronomers analyzing data from Vera C. Rubin Observatory have discovered the fastest-ever spinning asteroid with a diameter ...

A newly identified string of galaxies, stretched across tens of millions of light years and slowly turning in space, is forcing astronomers to rethink how structure and motion emerge on the grandest ...

Moves are afoot to illuminate particles in flight with powerful X-ray bursts, to determine the structure of single molecules, viruses and nanoparticles. This would circumvent important limitations of ...

Astronomers have spotted pure chaos lurking in the cosmos. Thousands of light years away from Earth, a small yet intensely heavy star is releasing bursts of material as powerful as repeating atomic ...

There's something new to look for in the heavens, and it's called a 'synestia,' according to planetary scientists. A synestia, they propose, would be a huge, spinning, donut-shaped mass of hot, ...

Craftsmanship is online and under the Creative Commons Open Licence. The Polish Museum of Ethnography has launched its Free The Design campaign, inviting craftsmen, ethnographers, designers and museum ...

A new type of planetary object, a donut-shaped body of vaporized and molten rock called a synestia, is being proposed by planetary scientists at UC Davis and Harvard University. Synestias form when ...