The origins, variations and myths of the centaur, a half-human, half-horse creature, will be the subject of a discussion led by a University of Northern Colorado adjunct professor later this month ...

Staring out into space is a time-tested technique for making long journeys pass more quickly, but not one often applied at the scale of the solar system. That's exactly the approach a team of ...

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 ...