The so-called 'planetesimal belts' are filled with tiny millimeter-sized particles created by collisions between comets.

An asteroid larger than Manhattan is soaring past the Earth today, and may be visible to the naked eye.  Alida, described as ...

Millions of families who claim Child Benefit are set to receive increased payments from this April. HMRC has confirmed that families with one child will now receive the new amount of £26.05 per ...

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 metallic rocks that form close to the sun, while comets are dirty snowballs ...

Chiron is a class of comet-ish asteroids/asteroid-ish comets called centaurs – named after the half-human, half-horse hybrid – found bouncing between Jupiter and Neptune. But Chiron is an ‘oddball ...

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 ...

Credit: William Gonzalez Sierra 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 ...

Astronomers have made a groundbreaking discovery in the outer reaches of our solar system, uncovering a mysterious object that defies conventional classification. Using the James Webb Space Telescope, ...

"It has periods when it behaves like a comet because it has rings of material around it, and perhaps a field of debris of fine dust or rocky material orbiting around it. Many questions about the ...

Scientists from the University of Central Florida have used the James Webb Space Telescope to reveal that a mysterious object called Chiron is like nothing they've seen before.

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 ...

NASA's most powerful observatory - the James Webb Space Telescope has provided exciting new details about 2060 Chiron, a ...