This asteroid is accelerating through space – scientists don’t know why

Whoosh! (Picture: Metro)

An oddball object is racing through the solar system in a way science is struggling to explain.

Asteroids, the crumbs of the early solar system, usually fly at a steady pace thanks to invisible forces like gravity and the sun’s radiation.

Not KY26. Sometimes called 1998 KY26 for the year it was first spotted, this 36-foot-wide lump is accelerating in a way space rocks shouldn’t.

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