Dark comets are believed to exhibit behaviour similar to traditional comets, such as the release of gas causing non-gravitational movement, but they lack visible dust trails. The Rubin Observatory, ...

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

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

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 ...

Skies over South Carolina kick off 2025 with a planet parade, ancient comet and the muse of "Beyond Antares," a 23rd-century love song from "Star Trek" fame.

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 ...

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

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 ...