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 ...

Italian police were acting on an arrest warrant from the International Criminal Court, reports say. The "once-in-a-century" find has been unearthed in the ancient Roman city. A huge private ...

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 ...

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Chiron is a class of comet-ish asteroids/asteroid-ish comets called centaurs – named after the half-human, half-horse hybrid ...

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 ...

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.