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

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.

NASA scientists are grappling with puzzling celestial bodies that defy existing classifications. These objects, dubbed “dark ...

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

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

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

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

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 ...

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 ...