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

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

An object that orbits in the space between Jupiter and Neptune has chemistry that could tell us more about the birth of the ...

The vast expanse of space often feels like a puzzle, with celestial objects serving as pieces that hold clues to the universe ...

Discover what astronomers are learning about an ancient ice giant traveling through our solar system that's a strange hybrid ...

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

Chiron’s surface has carbon dioxide, methane ice, and volatile gases Its coma offers insights into gases beneath Chiron’s surface Observations may help understand the early solar system and celestial ...

Although our Solar System is billions of years old, we've only recently become better acquainted with one of its more dynamic ...

Although our solar system is billions of years old, we've only recently become better acquainted with one of its more dynamic and captivating inhabitants known as (2060) Chiron.

UCF researchers used the James Webb Space Telescope to reveal one-of-a-kind attributes of (2060) Chiron, a distant “centaur” ...

DAVENPORT, Iowa — Former U.S. Rep. Jim Leach, who served 30 years as a politician from eastern Iowa and later headed the National Endowment for the Humanities, died Wednesday. He was 82. Leach, whose ...

DAVENPORT, Iowa — Former U.S. Rep. Jim Leach, who served 30 years as a politician from eastern Iowa and later headed the National Endowment for the Humanities, died Wednesday. He was 82. Leach ...