Even small asteroids can do a lot of damage—and new research shows the James Webb Space Telescope is adept at spotting the tiniest of space rocks.

Scientists using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope have studied Chiron, a centaur orbiting between Jupiter and Neptune, unveiling its unique dual nature as both asteroid and comet. The research ...

The Quadrantids’ radiant lies in the now-defunct constellation Quadrans Muralis, a region of the sky occupied by Boötes. It’s ...

In Greek mythology, a centaur is a creature that’s half-human, half-horse. Now, scientists have used NASA’s most powerful space telescope to study a different kind of hybrid lurking in our cosmic ...

Discover how probing the components of the half-asteroid, half-comet hybrids reveals that carbon dioxide was present during the solar system’s formation.

Source: Celestia team/Wikimedia Commons/General Public License GNU In deep space, beyond the orbit of Jupiter, a strange ...

One way to find out what type of color blindness you ... Then we will start up and do a walk around both telescopes, make sure everything looks good. The 1.8 meter and 0.9 meter telescopes that ...

Now on Earth, the Bennu asteroid sample could reveal details about the asteroid’s chemistry and the history of the solar system for years to come. The Webb Space Telescope keeps snapping jaw ...

The discovery doubles the known number of these mysterious celestial objects across our solar system ... couldn’t find any signs of a comet’s tail. It looked like any other asteroid ...