Far from being solid bullets of rock, many asteroids are fragile clusters of debris that spin so quickly they flirt with self-destruction. When their rotation rate climbs past a critical threshold, ...

A team of scientists has discovered that the black hole at the center of the Milky Way galaxy is spinning so fast that it's squishing space-time. Using NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory telescope, a ...

Using data from NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope, scientists have identified the three fastest-spinning brown dwarfs ever found. More massive than most planets but not quite heavy enough to ignite like ...

A team of planetary scientists at Universidad de Alicante, in Spain, has found that the asteroid Didymos may be spinning so fast that it is flinging off rubble from near its equator. In their paper ...