14:32, Thu, Feb 23, 2017 Updated: 14:38, Thu, Feb 23, 2017 The odd egg-shaped dwarf planet known as Haumea which spins incredibly quickly fast is orbiting the sun past Pluto. The tiny planet is ...

Astronomers have discovered what they say is the fastest rotating object in the Solar System for its size. The object is called 2003 EL61 and rotates once every 3.9 hours. Rather than being spherical ...

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 App, ...

Tongcang Li and Jonghoon Ahn have levitated a nanoparticle in a vacuum and driven it to rotate at high speed, which they hope will help them study the properties of vacuum and quantum mechanics.

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 observed ...

Researchers from the University of St Andrews claim to have created the world’s fastest spinning man-made object. The team of scientists were able to levitate and spin a microscopic sphere in a vacuum ...

To demonstrate the system, the researchers showed that it could reconstruct real-time high-quality still images of a model jet engine rotating at about ∼2170 rpm (top images) and a CPU cooling fan ...

The red squiggles indicate the polarisation of the light beam, which changes as it goes through the purple sphere A team of researchers claims to have created the world's fastest spinning man-made ...