In the dark depths of the solar system, astronomers have discovered a truly baffling object. Named 2060 Chiron, this 125-mile-wide (200km) asteroid-comet hybrid is a type of body known as a ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has discovered that the centaur called 2060 Chiron is an oddball. The object, which is a minor body that orbits the sun in the expanse between Jupiter and Neptune ...

In a new paper published in the journal Icarus, MIT scientists reveal that they have found a second minor planet — called 2060 Chiron — to possess a ring system. Both of these bodies are part ...