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NASA Finds 7 More Mysterious ‘Dark Comets’ — What To Know

NASA just found seven more dark comets

NASA researchers have discovered seven new dark comets, asteroids that act like comets, and they say there could be even more.

NASA Finds Seven More Mysterious ‘Dark Comets’ — What To Know

A new category of space rock called “dark comets” are proving more common than previously thought, with 14 asteroid-comet objects now discovered.

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'Shadows in the Sky': NASA discovers seven new dark comets shaping solar mysteries

NASA researchers have identified seven new 'dark comets,' celestial objects resembling asteroids but exhibiting comet-like behavior.

Enigmatic ‘Dark Comets’ Come in Two Distinct Types, Study Finds

The study also reveals that these mysterious objects fall into two distinct groups based on their orbit and size. With this latest discovery, scientists are learning more about dark comets and their potential for having delivered the building blocks of life to Earth.

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A New Type Of Dark Comet May Have Shaped The Early Earth

So-called dark comets exist in two classes, large objects in the outer Solar System and smaller ones closer to the Sun, a new paper reveals. Dark comets are not a form of dark matter, but objects with no visible tail or outgassing,

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NASA Captures Video Of Comet Atlas Being Broken Apart As It Passes By The Sun

This comet was one of a number of comets that are occasionally visible from Earth. They were created from a much larger comet ...

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The First Comet We Ever Saw Slam Into Jupiter May Have Left It With A New Ring

The rings of Jupiter might not be as spectacular as Saturn’s (whose are?) but they are there. However, one of them may not ...

NASA discovers seven objects that look like asteroids but act like comets

NASA has announced the discovery of seven astronomical objects that come in two flavors; they look like asteroids but ...

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The new planet NASA found is special: it has a tail

Scientific discoveries never cease thanks to the large number of enthusiastic men and women of science who continue to look ...

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Comet A3 Photobombs Sun Observatory During Powerful X-Flare

A3 (Tsuchinshan-ATLAS) has come within the sights of the ESA/NASA Solar and Heliospheric Observatory. The spacecraft captured ...

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Ancient comet collisions could have brought water to Earth, NASA says

“A wave of comet and asteroid collisions with the solar system’s inner planets 4 billion years ago would have made this ...

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NASA Reveals Jupiter Comets May Have Brought Water to Earth

Scientists have revived the theory that short-period comets could have played a crucial role in filling Earth's oceans with ...

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