Chiron is just 218 kilometers (135 miles) across and occasionally has outbursts like a comet. To date, however, no spacecraft has ever visited a Centaur.

Chiron belongs to the class of objects that astronomers call "Centaurs." Centaurs are space objects that orbit the sun between Jupiter and Neptune. They are akin to the mythological creature they ...

Around the eighth century BCE, two centaur origin stories dominate Greek texts, the benevolent demigod Chiron, the immortal instructor, and the vicious race of Centaurs.

Chiron is a class of comet-ish asteroids/asteroid-ish comets called centaurs – named after the half-human, half-horse hybrid – found bouncing between Jupiter and Neptune.

An artistic representation of an active centaur like Chiron. The different colors in the coma indicate varying compositions of gas, ice, and dust. William Gonzalez Sierra ...

Minor planet 2060 Chiron is what's known as a Centaur, which are captured cometary objects that travel around the sun on looping orbits between Jupiter and Neptune.

Your Chiron sign informs how you deal with pain and trauma. An astrologer breaks down what it means when the planet goes retrograde In astrology, the celestial body known as Chiron is the ...

Scientists recently led a team that found, for the first time, that Chiron has surface chemistry unlike other centaurs. Its surface it has both carbon dioxide and carbon monoxide ice along with ...

Minor planet 2060 Chiron is what's known as a Centaur, which are captured cometary objects that travel around the sun on looping orbits between Jupiter and Neptune.

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 ...