Overview
- Rubin scientists reported more than 11,000 previously unknown asteroids, and the Minor Planet Center confirmed the finds.
- The batch includes 33 new near‑Earth asteroids, none posing a threat to Earth, with the largest about 500 meters wide.
- Researchers flagged roughly 380 candidate worlds beyond Neptune, including 2025 LS2 and 2025 MX348 on extreme, stretched orbits among the most distant known.
- The results come from about one million measurements gathered over roughly six weeks in mid‑2025, which also recovered more than 80,000 known or previously lost objects.
- New software from the University of Washington working with Rubin’s wide‑field telescope and the world’s largest digital camera enabled the haul and points to far larger totals once full survey operations begin later this year.