Inner dark comets can be found within the inner solar system, which includes the planets Earth, Venus, Mars and Mercury, and move in nearly circular orbits around the sun.

What are dark comets? Our team identified a class of small bodies in the solar system that take some of the properties of both comets and asteroids. We called them dark comets.

Dark matter does pervade the solar system like an invisible fog. We just lack the means to measure its effects on solar system bodies.

Because the source of their propulsion cannot be seen, Seligman has given these 14 solar system oddities a rather catchy name: dark comets.

New research of dark comets explores how water that makes up the oceans acted as a key ingredient for the development of life on Earth — and brought us oceans.

Kareta says that come October, when the comet gets closer to Earth, "under dark skies ... with a big telescope and some ...

Three new full-dome movies will highlight the July schedule at the University of Wyoming Harry C. Vaughan Planetarium.

The object gained an official name, C/2025 N1 or 3I/ATLAS, on Wednesday. Moving at a record-setting speed for an interstellar ...

It poses no threat to Earth, but this comet, called C/2014 UN271 (Bernardinelli-Bernstein), has enraptured astronomers ever since its discovery in 2021. The hulking object, sometimes jovially called a ...

The Vera C Rubin observatory, home to the world's most powerful digital camera, promises to transform our understanding of ...