Astronomers have found signs that the small icy world Chiron, orbiting between Saturn and Uranus, may be forming a new ring ...

New James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) findings are giving scientists a fresh look at an "oddball" space rock that has ...

Chiron is a centaur approximately 200 km in diameter and takes about 50 years to complete a full orbit around the Sun.

In the dark depths of the solar system, astronomers have discovered a truly baffling object. Named 2060 Chiron, this 125-mile-wide (200km) asteroid-comet hybrid is a type of body known as a Centaur, ...

For decades, astronomers have been awed by Saturn’s ring beauty. But a tiny, icy wanderer drifting between Saturn and Uranus has now stolen a little of that spotlight. A new paper released in The ...

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 ...

You might have seen an interesting phrase popping up in your social media feeds lately: “Chiron is in retrograde.” If you’re anything like me, you’ve never heard of Chiron before – and I’m a ...

Scientists at Brazil’s Pico dos Dias Observatory have, for the first time, successfully observed the process of formation of Saturn’s ring systems, which surround the planet and span approximately 280 ...

We propose that several short duration events observed in past stellar occultations by Chiron were produced by rings material. From a reanalysis of the stellar occultation data in the literature we ...

The rings of Saturn are among the wonders of our solar system, with a diameter of roughly 175,000 miles (280,000 kilometers) as they encircle the giant planet. But smaller celestial bodies in the ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. Centaurs are real. In space, that is. These celestial objects orbit ...

Researchers have found that a space object called Chiron has traits like both an asteroid and comet. William Gonzalez Sierra It really rocked their world. Scientists using the James Webb Space ...