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 ...

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There may be 19 asteroids in orbit around the sun that come from somewhere else entirely. If true, we could visit an alien 'world' without ever leaving the confines of the solar system. Share on ...

Centaur 29P, an icy object in the outer solar system, is spewing unusual jets of hot gas, revealing its hybrid nature as a mashup of different cosmic bodies. Reading time 3 minutes Since its discovery ...

UCF researchers used the James Webb Space Telescope to reveal one-of-a-kind attributes of (2060) Chiron, a distant “centaur” in space sharing properties of both a comet and an asteroid, giving clues ...