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 an asteroid. These findings ...

Scientists have discovered a mysterious asteroid-comet hybrid is 'like nothing seen before' in our solar system.

Researcher Noemí Pinilla-Alonso explained that the composition is uncharacteristic of objects near Neptune. Its gaseous and ...

Astronomers have made a groundbreaking discovery in the outer reaches of our solar system, uncovering a mysterious object ...

Scientists from the University of Central Florida have used the James Webb Space Telescope to reveal that a mysterious object ...

In the distant space out beyond the orbit of Jupiter lurks a strange object. Its name is Chiron, a type of outer Solar System body known as a centaur. But even among its fellow centaurs, Chiron is ...

Dec. 18, 2024 — Until now, scientists have been unable to determine how metformin, a Type 2 diabetes medication that lowers blood sugar, works. A study provided direct evidence in mice that it ...

The new year kicks off with the peak of the Quadrantids, one of the strongest meteor showers of the year, according to NASA.

Using AI training, researchers designed a "robot dog" that moves like a cat, and has no trouble navigating low-gravity ...

The first meteor shower of the year, the Quadrantids, peaks tonight, Jan. 2, and on Jan. 3 according to NASA. NASA called Quadrantids, which peak in early January annually, "one of the best annual ...

The asteroid, named 2025 AB, is expected to pass us at a distance of 95,200 miles, about twice as close as the orbit of the ...

The Quadrantids meteor shower will have a two-night peak in early January and remain active until Jan. 16, 2025. Here's when ...