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 ...

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

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

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

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 ...

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...