have mostly come from the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter and could make up as much as 60% of all near-Earth objects, a new study suggests. Dark comets were first revealed in 2023 ...

"Dark comets are a new potential source for having delivered the materials to Earth that were necessary for the development of life," he said, according to Forbes. As researchers continue to study ...

An incoming comet that could be visible to the naked eye as it passes Earth later this year may be doomed to disintegrate before we get the chance to see it up close, a new study suggests.

Comet C/2022 E3 was first discovered by the Zwicky Transient Facility, a public-private partnership aimed at a systematic study ... point to Earth (despite its "closest point" being around 26 ...

The nucleus of a comet is usually around 6 miles ... zoomed near Earth in 1986, five spacecraft flew past it and gathered unprecedented details, coming close enough to study its nucleus, which ...

Meteors from the Eta Aquariids, known for their speed and created from space debris originating from Halley's comet, will ...

disrupting the comet cloud around our solar system as we pass through the dark disk. Dislodged meteorites can then tumble towards Earth with dire repercussions. The researchers’ analyses were ...

The planet orbits its host star in just 30.5 hours, losing a mass of material roughly equal to Mount Everest each time ...

Many of the microbe DNA sequences came from an unidentifiable “dark ... to Earth for conclusively addressing whether life ever existed on Mars,” the researchers wrote in the study.

It is calculated that the comet started off 40,000 times further away from the sun than the Earth (a measurement called an astronomical unit or AU), which is around 3.7 trillion miles. It was ...