In its preliminary data release, taken from just seven nights of observations, the powerful Vera C. Rubin Observatory has discovered an enormous, fast-spinning asteroid that sets a new record.

With data collected months before its main survey is due to begin, the Vera C. Rubin Observatory is already upending what we ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An asteroid about the length of three football fields is due to pass closely – but safely – by Earth in a matter of hours. Talk of ...

With a diameter of around 2,300 feet, the newly-detected asteroid completes a full rotation in just under two minutes.

The space rock, known as “2026 AJ” and 40 feet in diameter, is hurtling towards our planet at around 20,500 miles per hour.

Astronomers analyzing data from NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory, jointly funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation and the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Science, have discovered the ...

Other than fictional representations, like Harry Vanderspeigle in SYFY and USA Network's Resident Alien (now streaming on Peacock), as far as we know, life has only ever arisen here on Earth. But the ...