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

JWST uncovered Chiron’s rare ices and gases, providing new insights into its unique activity and its link to the solar system ...

The James Webb telescope has focused its attention on an oddball space rock lurking between Jupiter and Neptune. The unusual ...

An object that orbits in the space between Jupiter and Neptune has chemistry that could tell us more about the birth of the ...

Discover what astronomers are learning about an ancient ice giant traveling through our solar system that's a strange hybrid ...

The JWST’s spectra data also showed the huge amount of various ices with different volatilities and how they are made. Chiron ...

Although our Solar System is billions of years old, we've only recently become better acquainted with one of its more dynamic ...

Researchers at CU Boulder and the National Institutes of Standards and Technology are working together using a laboratory on ...

Although our solar system is billions of years old, we've only recently become better acquainted with one of its more dynamic and captivating inhabitants known as (2060) Chiron.

A team of scientists researching in California say they’ve recorded multiple instances of ground squirrels hunting and eating ...

UCF researchers used the James Webb Space Telescope to reveal one-of-a-kind attributes of (2060) Chiron, a distant “centaur” ...

The Geminids originate from a "dead" asteroid, rather than a comet. One of the most dramatic astronomical events of the year is scheduled to peak this weekend. The Geminid meteor shower is ...