An asteroid larger than Manhattan is soaring past the Earth today, and may be visible to the naked eye.  Alida, described as ...
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 ...
UCF researchers utilized the James Webb Space Telescope to uncover unique characteristics of (2060) Chiron, a distant ...
Scientists have discovered a mysterious asteroid-comet hybrid is 'like nothing seen before' in our solar system.
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.
Source: Celestia team/Wikimedia Commons/General Public License GNU In deep space, beyond the orbit of Jupiter, a strange ...
Scientists from the University of Central Florida have used the James Webb Space Telescope to reveal that a mysterious object ...
NASA's most powerful observatory - the James Webb Space Telescope has provided exciting new details about 2060 Chiron, a ...
The research also revealed the presence of water ice and various carbon-based molecules, such as ethane and propane, on this object indicating complex chemical processes at work.