The first dark comet was spotted in 2016 when scientists noticed that the trajectory of near-Earth asteroid 2003 RM was a little wonky for your typical space rock.

‘Dark comets’ could reveal how Earth got its oceans Scientists still do not know where the water here on Earth came from. But two populations of so-called dark comets may tell us.

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.

As researchers continue to study dark comets, they hope to unravel more mysteries about their nature and significance in the context of planetary formation and the development of life on Earth.

Astronomers posed over the past decade that dark comets, or objects that resemble asteroids but move like comets, may exist. Now, scientists have found a total of 14 of them.

You have just a few weeks left to view the "comet of the century" making its 80,000-year orbit around Earth. Comet C/2023 A3 Tsuchinshan–ATLAS will be visible with the naked eye from Earth until ...

A dark comet is one that doesn't have a visible coma or tail, but when measured, has this additional non-gravitational acceleration. Taylor and their colleagues studied the seven known dark comets to ...

NASA's discovery of seven new "dark comets" doubles the known population of these asteroid-like objects with cometary behavior. These dark, elusive bodies, some near Earth and others further out ...

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.

Scientists have identified a new class of space rocks called "dark comets" that may be harder to detect and pose a greater danger than previously thought.

“Dark comets are a new class of near-Earth objects that may contain water, so they’re a new potential source for delivering materials to Earth which were necessary for the development of life.

A reanalysis of the data from the "rubber-ducky" comet 67P, collected nearly a decade ago, suggests comets may have deposited a lot more water on Earth than scientists previously thought.