The strange rock mass, first spotted in 1977, has been identified as 2060 Chiron and is classified as a centaur — named for the mythological hybrid half-man, half-horse — and orbits the sun ...

2060 Chiron is a distant icy, rocky world that measures 135 miles across Credit: Hubble Space Telescope/Karen Meech. It's called 2060 Chiron, and it's believed to be both a minor planet and a comet.

Now, astronomers are learning more about a famous centaur known as (2060) Chiron and how its surface chemistry sets it apart from other centaurs, by detecting its chemical composition for the ...

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.Chiron is just 218 kilometers ...

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. Chiron is just 218 kilometers ...

Named 2060 Chiron, this 125-mile-wide (200km) asteroid-comet hybrid is a type of body known as a Centaur, named after the mythical creature that is half-horse and half-man.

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.

The surprising discovery of a ring system around the Centaur 10199 Chariklo in 2013 led to a reanalysis of archival stellar occultation data for the Centaur 2060 Chiron by Ortiz et al.

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, ...

The strange rock mass, first spotted in 1977, has been identified as 2060 Chiron and is classified as a centaur — named for the mythological hybrid half-man, half-horse — and orbits the sun ...

2060 Chiron was the first of the 'Centaur' bodies to be discovered. It displays some of the properties of an asteroid but produces a tail or ice and dust like a comet.

2060 Chiron is a distant icy, rocky world that measures 135 miles across Credit: Hubble Space Telescope/Karen Meech. It's called 2060 Chiron, and it's believed to be both a minor planet and a comet.