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

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

It’s a bird! It’s a plane! No, it’s an asteroid-comet hybrid called a ‘centaur’ that might not even be that. Asteroids are ...

Scientists from the University of Central Florida have used the James Webb Space Telescope to reveal that a mysterious object ...

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

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

In the distant space out beyond the orbit of Jupiter lurks a strange object. Its name is Chiron, a type of outer Solar System body known as a centaur. But even among its fellow centaurs, Chiron is ...

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

Chiron, for instance, has properties similar to those of asteroids, but also sometimes has comet-like activity. Oh, and it has a ring around it, like a little miniature planetary ring. Because ...

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 ...