One of the most interesting of the constellations is now dominating the low southern sky at around 9:30 p.m. local daylight time — the mythical half-horse, half-man creature known as the Centaur.

This artist's concept shows a Centaur creature together with asteroids on the left and comets at right. Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech. NASA/JPL-Caltech. The true identity of centaurs, the small ...

With just its head and front legs peeking out from its underground burrow, the Mexican mole lizard could pass for a slender, pink lizard — until it emerges completely, its body etched with ring after ...

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A team of scientists tracked down a distant Centaur, or a planet-like space rock that orbits deep between Jupiter and Neptune, and finally made sense of its unusual, comet-like behavior. Centaurs are ...