Many creatures in Dungeons & Dragons come from classic fantasy media, and just like dwarves and elves, few things are as core ...

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 carbon ...

Jul. 14—EXCELSIOR — The Gopher Classic was fruitful for the Bemidji American Legion baseball team, to say the least. The Centaurs' trip to Excelsior resulted in a 5-0-1 record in six games, including ...

In June 2013, seven telescopes across South America were trained on the star UCAC4 248-108672, in anticipation of it being ...

The true identity of centaurs, the small celestial bodies orbiting the Sun between Jupiter and Neptune, is one of the enduring mysteries of astrophysics. Are they asteroids or comets? A new study of ...

In 1977, astronomer Charles Kowal discovered a strange, asteroid-like rocky object in the outer solar system. It was traveling slowly, as if orbiting the Sun beyond Neptune. This raised some eyebrows, ...

Often, the squeaky wheel, or at least the shiniest object, seems to get all the attention. In a new study led by PSI Research Scientist Eva Lilly, it is the inactive Centaurs that take center stage ...

It’s time for astronomers to abandon the traditional ways they’ve categorised comets and distant asteroids and for them to look at all the small bodies populating the outer solar system in a fresh ...

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 clues ...