Scientists from Purdue University have used radiation pressure, in the form of concentrated lasers, to create the world’s fastest spinning object. The team succeeded in rotating a dumbbell-shaped ...

The sphere, which rotates 500,000 times faster than the average washing machine, is the fastest-spinning object ever made.

Researchers have discovered that the neutron star in the binary system 4U 1820-30 rotates at an astonishing speed of 716 times per second, making it one of the fastest-spinning objects ever ...

Haumea is one of the fastest rotating large objects in our solar system. A single day on the dwarf planet is only about 4 Earth hours long. NOVA is available to stream on pbs.org and the free PBS ...

A small asteroid that zipped by the Earth this week has turned out to be no slow poke. It is the second-fastest spinning asteroid ever seen, astronomers say.