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

The mission’s close-up with the sun is the culmination of a dream that dates to the dawn of the space age, but progress was thwarted for decades by the complexity of the task. One particular obstacle ...

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

Option agreement with Kinross Gold ( see Oct. 24, 2024 News Release ), Puma aimed to secure and gain control over a second ...

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 ...

Bright balls of fire were seen soaring across the southern US and, despite many witnesses, it’s unclear what exactly the ...

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

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

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 ...

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