The so-called 'planetesimal belts' are filled with tiny millimeter-sized particles created by collisions between comets.

An asteroid larger than Manhattan is soaring past the Earth today, and may be visible to the naked eye.  Alida, described as ...

Concern over Britain’s economy has led a number of the UK’s daily newspapers this Saturday. The Times reports that Britain must engage with China if the UK wishes to bolster economic growth this year, ...

You are not going to want to miss this! Comet G3 ATLAS (C/2024) is expected to make its return for a close encounter with the Sun in mid-January, giving skywatchers the chance to spot one of the ...

It’s a bird! It’s a plane! No, it’s an asteroid-comet hybrid called a ‘centaur’ that might not even be that. Asteroids are metallic rocks that form close to the sun, while comets are dirty snowballs ...

Scientists have made the remarkable discovery that a mysterious asteroid-comet hybrid is 'like nothing seen before' in our solar system. Dubbed 2060 Chiron, the 125-mile-wide hybrid is of particular ...

It really rocked their world. Scientists using the James Webb Space Telescope have better observed an asteroid that strangely possesses hybrid characteristics of a comet as well. The strange rock mass ...

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 ...

Credit: William Gonzalez Sierra 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 ...