Chiron is a class of comet-ish asteroids/asteroid-ish comets called centaurs – named after the half-human, half-horse 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 body known as a centaur. But even among its fellow centaurs, Chiron is ...

Out in the blackness of space beyond Jupiter there is a wild hybrid orbiter unlike any other. It's been named Chiron and ...

Scientists have discovered new characteristics of a small body which orbits the sun between Jupiter and Neptune, providing ...

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

Scientists have made a shocking discovery about a rare object in our solar system likened to an asteroid-comet hybrid.

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

Scientists using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope have studied Chiron, a centaur orbiting between Jupiter and Neptune, ...

"All the small bodies in the solar system talk to us about how it was back in time, which is a period of time we can't really observe anymore," she says. "But active centaurs tell us much more.

Detecting molecules on distant objects in our Solar System has been complex due to Earth’s atmospheric and instrumental ...