Michigan State University and NASA researchers discover seven dark comets that reveal new solar system secrets.

The so-called 'planetesimal belts' are filled with tiny millimeter-sized particles created by collisions between comets.

“By analyzing the reflectivity and the orbits, we found that our Solar System contains two different types of dark comets.” Seligman and colleagues did not discover these additional dark comet ...

G3 (ATLAS) blazed past the Sun, captured in stunning detail by the SOHO spacecraft. Scientists used its passage to study how ...

"There is little question that, with its daylight display and spectacular evening apparition in a moonless sky, Comet 2024 G3 ...

This doubled the population of known dark comets, bringing the total to 14 — not including 'Oumuamua. Most excitingly, we saw that there are two distinct types of solar system dark comets ...

"It's being thrown off by the many types of carbon compounds in the comet." Besides the bountiful hydrogen and oxygen found in cometary ice, astronomers knew that comets contained a lot of carbon ...

A University of Michigan-led study published in the journal Icarus makes the case that a large part of earth’s water may have come from so-called ‘dark comets.’ Dark comets are near-earth ...

Some people have seen Comet A3 with an anti-tail in front, much like the one seen in this 2023 image of Comet C2022 E3 (ZTF). © Kết Nối Việt Nam via Flickr Don ...