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

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 ...

It really rocked their world. Scientists using the James Webb Space Telescope have better observed an asteroid that strangely possesses hybrid characteristics of a comet as well. The strange rock mass ...

Scientists using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope have studied Chiron, a centaur orbiting between Jupiter and Neptune, unveiling its unique dual nature as both asteroid and comet. The research ...

Researchers have found that a space object called Chiron has traits like both an asteroid and comet. William Gonzalez Sierra It really rocked their world. Scientists using the James Webb Space ...

A team of astronomers has in one of these hybrid objects called Chiron now characterized what could be considered a unicorn among centaurs. Chiron contains signs that it has emitted both carbon ...

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 ...

Scientists have made the remarkable discovery that a mysterious asteroid-comet hybrid is 'like nothing seen before' in our solar system. Dubbed 2060 Chiron, the 125-mile-wide hybrid is of particular ...

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 ...