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 ...

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

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

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

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

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

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 ...

They are undergoing transformation driven by solar heating and they provide a unique opportunity to learn about the surface ...

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

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 ...

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