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

For the past few years, I’ve been studying a type of object that I called a dark comet – which could be just the culprit. In a new study my colleagues and I published in December 2024 ...

For the past few years, I've been studying a type of object that I called a dark comet—which could be just the culprit. In a new study my colleagues and I published in December 2024, we ...

NASA astronaut Don Pettit has snapped a striking shot of the super-bright comet racing past our planet for the first time in ...

G3 (ATLAS) is now visible in the post-sunset night sky. It's best seen in the Southern Hemisphere, but it's visible north of ...

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, ...

Dark comets are elusive celestial bodies that resemble asteroids but exhibit comet-like behaviors, such as non-gravitational acceleration, without displaying visible tails.

A newly-discovered comet might light up the night sky in the coming weeks, possibly shining even brighter than the planet ...

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory may shine a lot of light on dark comets when it comes online this year. 2025 could be a record-breaking year in terms of discovering new dark comets. In 2017 ...

2025 could be a record-breaking year in terms of discovering new dark comets. In 2017, astronomers discovered the interstellar visitor 'Oumuamua. In 2023, we reported the discovery of seven solar ...