The water that makes up the oceans acted as a key ingredient for the development of life on Earth. However, scientists still ...

Learn more about the water molecules on the moon, which may trace their origins to the materials that made Earth and comets.

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

Scientists have discovered seven more "dark comets," and analysis of this haul suggests that the puzzling planetoids are ...

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

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 ...

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

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

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 ...