The research also revealed the presence of water ice and various carbon-based molecules, such as ethane and propane, on this ...

The James Webb telescope has focused its attention on an oddball space rock lurking between Jupiter and Neptune. The unusual ...

JWST uncovered Chiron’s rare ices and gases, providing new insights into its unique activity and its link to the solar system ...

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

Although our solar system is billions of years old, we've only recently become better acquainted with one of its more dynamic ...

Now, astronomers are learning more about a famous centaur known as (2060) Chiron and how its surface chemistry sets it apart from other centaurs, by detecting its chemical composition for the ...

Discover how probing the components of the half-asteroid, half-comet hybrids reveals that carbon dioxide was present during ...

UCF researchers used the James Webb Space Telescope to reveal one-of-a-kind attributes of (2060) Chiron, a distant “centaur” in space sharing properties of both a comet and an asteroid ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has discovered that the centaur called 2060 Chiron is an oddball. The object, which is a minor body that orbits the sun in the expanse between Jupiter and Neptune ...