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

Comets without tails, called dark comets, are a newly discovered space object. Now, astronomers know they come in 2 classes.

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

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

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

The study also reveals that these mysterious objects fall into two distinct groups based on their orbit and size. With this ...

The JWST’s spectra data also showed the huge amount of various ices with different volatilities and how they are made. Chiron ...

Comets, often described as the solar system's "dirty snowballs," are icy bodies made of rock, dust and ices. These relics of ...

Astronomers posed over the past decade that dark comets, or objects that resemble asteroids but move like comets, may exist.

Scientists recently led a team that found, for the first time, that Chiron has surface chemistry unlike other centaurs. Its surface it has both carbon dioxide and carbon monoxide ice along with carbon ...

This new data reveals that not even all dark comets are the same: there are at least two different kinds. And, in turn, the ...

Researchers have doubled the number of known dark comets, identifying two distinct types: larger ones in the outer solar system and smaller ones in the inner solar system. This discovery raises new ...