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

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

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

Scientists have discovered new characteristics of a small body which orbits the sun between Jupiter and Neptune, providing ...

UCF researchers utilized the James Webb Space Telescope to uncover unique characteristics of (2060) Chiron, a distant "centaur" that exhibits traits of both a comet and an asteroid. These findings ...

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

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

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

a bit like a comet. Charles Schambeau of the University of Central Florida describes Chiron as an oddball among all the other centaurs, and even among trans-Neptunian objects (TNOs), which have ...

In 1977, Chiron became the first centaur ever discovered. Astronomers originally thought that it was an asteroid, but when it was seen emitting a halo of gas and a tail like a comet, they realized ...

Scientists using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope have studied Chiron, a centaur orbiting between Jupiter and Neptune, ...

Chiron's 50-year elliptical orbit around the ... where it will become a Jupiter-family comet with an orbital period of less than 20 years, or it will be thrown back into the Kuiper Belt, rejected ...