Back in 1988, GMC rolled a concept truck out onto the Detroit Auto Show floor that combined two unrelated vehicles into one. The GMC Centaur concept was a sedan and a pickup truck with an engine under ...

The anatomy of a centaur (half man, half horse) raises a lot of questions. For instance, which organs go where? And what’s the purpose of having two torsos? If scientists could only get their hands on ...

For almost 200 years, archaeologists have been puzzled by a mysterious brown stain on the ancient Greek Parthenon temple in Greece. Now, researchers have conducted new scientific analyses, and their ...

In the dark depths of the solar system, astronomers have discovered a truly baffling object. Named 2060 Chiron, this 125-mile-wide (200km) asteroid-comet hybrid is a type of body known as a Centaur, ...

Last week, IGN FilmForce had a special treat for Narnia fans: The Anatomy of a Minotaur, a detailed look at Otmin the Minotaur. Today, courtesy of Walt Disney Pictures, Walden Media, and the Weta ...

Astronomers have spotted possible rings around the minor planet Chiron, suggesting that ring systems may be more common throughout the solar system than scientists had previously thought. A team of ...

In Greek mythology, a centaur is a creature with the upper body of a human, and lower body and legs of a horse. In Italy’s IIT-Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Centauro is a 5-foot-tall robot that ...

Chiron is a minor planet on the outskirts of the solar system first discovered in 1977. Astronomers observing the body as it passed in front of a star in November 2011 found evidence that this distant ...