The Vera C. Rubin Observatory's Legacy Survey of Space and Time should spot many new "dark comets" after coming online in ...

Comet ATLAS G3 will be closest to the Sun on Jan. 13, 2025, but will mainly be visible only from the Southern Hemisphere.

Astronomers have made a groundbreaking discovery in the outer reaches of our solar system, uncovering a mysterious object ...

The water that makes up the oceans acted as a key ingredient for the development of life on Earth. However, scientists still ...

Breaking space news, the latest updates on rocket launches ... we found that our solar system contains two different types of dark comets." The outer dark comets have more eccentric, i,.e. elliptical, ...

(Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech) Scientists have discovered seven rocky space bodies that look ... mysterious bodies can be described as outer or inner dark comets. While outer dark comets are hundreds ...

This December American space agency NASA announced their number ... The first kind would be the one of the outer dark comets, which share a lot of characteristics with the comets from the so ...

On October 19th, 2017, the Panoramic Survey Telescope and Rapid Response System-1 (Pan-STARRS-1) in Hawaii announced the ...

In the distant space out beyond the orbit of Jupiter lurks a strange object. Its name is Chiron, a type of outer Solar System body known as a centaur. But even among its fellow centaurs, Chiron is ...

“The fact that the first object we discovered from interstellar space exhibited similar behaviors ... of Mars and Jupiter. Meanwhile, outer dark comets, which may have come from the outer ...

But they still look like comets. The two types, outer dark comets, have characteristics similar to those of Jupiter-family comets with eccentric orbits. The inner dark comets are smaller and have ...

For a regular comet, this other force is the thrust produced by ices sublimating into vapor on their surface when they near the heat of the sun and outgas into space, carrying the dust that produces ...