Earlier this year, an extraordinary event unfolded in the skies over Berlin as the asteroid 2024 BX1, the fastest-spinning asteroid ever recorded, entered Earth's atmosphere and broke apart.
It may not always be the closest to the Sun, but the large divergence between its perihelion and aphelion, makes it the fastest asteroid discovered so far travelling at 565,000 kilometres per hour ...
The biggest asteroid of 2021 is set to zoom past the planet at 9:00 pm on March 21 Indian Standard Time (IST). The half-a-kilometre wide space rock was first spotted in 2001, but this time it will ...
a small 30m asteroid that is a fast rotator. Hayabusa 2 won't sample either of these asteroids, but its observations will add to its already impressive contribution.