They’ve lived through the ice age, the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs and brushed off an atomic blast just a mile away ...

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

In Greek mythology, a centaur is a creature that’s half-human, half-horse. Now, scientists have used NASA’s most powerful ...

A strange asteroid-comet hybrid that orbits between Jupiter and Neptune could reveal key details about the birth of our solar ...

When NASA’s Dawn spacecraft visited the giant asteroid Vesta, it discovered intriguing channels on the rocky surface, ...

EarthSky.org explained that an asteroid is just a rock with an orbit that is more circular than that of a comet. "A comet is a dirty snowball, with a solid nucleus covered by a layer of ice which ...

Get ready for a spectacular start to 2025, as one of the most active meteor showers in the astronomical calendars is set to light up the skies.

its dust and ice begins to vaporize. When viewed with a telescope, a comet appears fuzzy and like it has a tail as the vapor trails it. [ Related: Dinosaur-killing asteroid likely came from deep ...

The ring might have acted like a giant sunshade, causing a cooling effect that might have unleashed an ice age.

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

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

The JWST found carbon monoxide and carbon dioxide ice on the surface, and carbon dioxide and methane gas in Chiron's thin coma. The presence and abundance of methane is consistent with the ...