Researcher Noemí Pinilla-Alonso explained that the composition is uncharacteristic of objects near Neptune. Its gaseous and ...

UCF researchers utilized the James Webb Space Telescope to uncover unique characteristics of (2060) Chiron, a distant ...

Astronomers have made a groundbreaking discovery in the outer reaches of our solar system, uncovering a mysterious object ...

Named 2060 Chiron, this 125-mile-wide (200km) asteroid-comet hybrid is a type of body known as a Centaur, named after the mythical creature that is half-horse and half-man. Centaurs are solar ...

The James Webb telescope has focused its attention on an oddball space rock lurking between Jupiter and Neptune. The unusual "centaur," named 2060 Chiron, has features of both comets and asteroids.

Scientists have discovered a mysterious asteroid-comet hybrid is 'like nothing seen before' in our solar system.

Now, astronomers are learning more about a famous centaur known as (2060) Chiron and how its surface ... According to NASA, an asteroid like Dimorphos is a small, rocky object that appears as ...

Discover how probing the components of the half-asteroid, half-comet hybrids reveals that carbon dioxide was present during ...

A strange asteroid-comet hybrid that orbits between Jupiter and Neptune could reveal key details about the birth of our solar ...

Since Chiron possesses characteristics of both an asteroid and a comet ... Unveiling the ice and gas nature of active centaur (2060) Chiron using the James Webb Space Telescope, Astronomy ...

Scientists have made a shocking discovery about a rare object in our solar system likened to an asteroid-comet hybrid.