UCF researchers utilized the James Webb Space Telescope to uncover unique characteristics of (2060) Chiron, a distant "centaur" that exhibits traits of both a comet and an asteroid. These findings ...

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Among the finds is an object thought to be an asteroid from the main belt, which lies between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter.

Mars has two moons, Phobos and Deimos. Scientists still debate whether these came from asteroids that passed close into Mars' ...

Scientists using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope have studied Chiron, a centaur orbiting between Jupiter and Neptune, unveiling its unique dual nature as both asteroid and comet. The research ...

Now, scientists have used NASA’s most powerful space telescope to study a different kind of hybrid lurking in our cosmic backyard – an object that’s both asteroid and comet, potentially offering new ...

Space can surprise even those who spend their lives studying it. People often think of our solar system as just a few planets and a bunch of empty space. Yet new observations suggest we have been ...

and may have originated from the main asteroid belt, located between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter. Meanwhile, outer dark comets, which may have come from the outer regions of our solar system ...

In the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, they discovered an incredibly high number of small asteroids. The enormous space rocks that led to the extinction of dinosaurs are much larger than these ...

Photograph by NASA/ESA/Reuters/Redux This work helps to fill in astronomers’ understanding of the asteroid belt, the wreckage left behind from the inner solar system’s formation—and it’s ...

Plans for a large solar farm on 66 hectares of Chelmsford green belt has been allowed at appeal. The proposal with capacity to generate up to 49.9 MW of energy – enough to power around 6,100 homes – ...

OAK HILL, WV (WVNS) — For a second Christmas season, Oak Hill Middle School principal Chad Quesenberry stepped into the wrestling ring with professional wrestlers to defend the honor of West Virginia ...