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

Of late, the dividing line between asteroids and comets has become blurred. There are "main-belt comets," also known as active asteroids, which are comet-like objects possessing the properties of ...

G3 (ATLAS) is expected to become brighter than Venus next week, and will probably be the brightest comet of 2025. It has ...

If it survives its close encounter with the sun next week, it could become the brightest comet of 2025.

Astronomers have spotted seven new examples of a cosmic phenomenon known as dark comets that could help scientists determine whether the celestial bodies helped deliver vital elements like water ...

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an object that looks like an asteroid but acts like a comet. Now, new research has doubled the number of known dark comets and grouped them into two distinct populations. A paper published this ...

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 ...

It's likely that in the next ten years we could double or even triple the amount of known dark comets, and start to understand their interesting origin stories. There could be more 'Oumuamua-like ...

Some of this stuff is known as mysterious dark matter, others are things like dark comets, which as their name suggests, are far more difficult to see from Earth than something like Tsuchinshan-Atlas.