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 ...

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

The vast expanse of space often feels like a puzzle, with celestial objects serving as pieces that hold clues to the universe ...

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 ...

A new category of space rock called “dark comets” are proving more common than previously thought, with 14 asteroid-comet ...

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

For a regular comet, this other force is the thrust produced by ices sublimating into vapor on their surface when they near the heat of the sun and outgas into space, carrying the dust that ...

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 ...

A study with the James Webb Space Telescope led by astronomer Noemí Pinilla-Alonso clarifies the characteristics of the ...

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