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 ...

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

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

Now, astronomers are learning more about a famous centaur known as (2060) Chiron and how its surface chemistry sets it apart from other centaurs, by detecting its chemical composition for the ...

UCF researchers used the James Webb Space Telescope to reveal one-of-a-kind attributes of (2060) Chiron, a distant “centaur” in space sharing properties of both a comet and an asteroid ...