Researchers have doubled the number of known dark comets, identifying two distinct types: larger ones in the outer solar system and smaller ones in the inner solar system. This discovery raises new ...

Astronomers posed over the past decade that dark comets, or objects that resemble asteroids but move like comets, may exist.

NASA is investigating "dark comets," mysterious celestial bodies lacking the bright tails typical of comets. With ...

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NASA's discovery of dark comets reveals potential origins of life on Earth, but their unpredictable orbits raise concerns ...

Comets, often described as the solar system's "dirty snowballs," are icy bodies made of rock, dust and ices. These relics of ...

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Their findings, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, categorize dark comets into two distinct ...

Back 2017, a non-awaited visitor with an oddly elongated shape zipped through the solar system. The interstellar object, ...

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The parent object of the Geminids is 3200 Phaethon, an unusual body that is part asteroid and part comet, discovered in 1983. Each year, Earth passes through the cloud of particles left behind by this ...