Astronomers posed over the past decade that dark comets, or objects that resemble asteroids but move like comets, may exist.

A team of scientists has discovered that WASP-69 b, an exoplanet, has a comet-like tail of gas, stretching up to 563,000 ...

Astronomers have discovered that the exoplanet WASP-69 b has a comet-like tail, which extends more than 350,000 miles due to ...

Dark comets are not like typical comets, which are icy bodies that form glowing tails when they approach the Sun. Rather, ...

In 2017, astronomers found an object they’d never seen before. Now, it’s part of a growing category of elusive ‘dark comets’ ...

Comets are icy bodies that formed alongside the planets in the early Solar System before being flung into its distant outer ...

Researchers have detected a giant tail of gas leaking from an exoplanet near Earth. The giant structure, which is up to ...

NASA scientists are grappling with puzzling celestial bodies that defy existing classifications. These objects, dubbed “dark ...

By doubling the number of known "dark comets," astronomers have been able to split them into two camps depending on their ...

Pan-STARRS, the Panoramic Survey Telescope and Rapid Response System, consists of two observatories in Hawaii and is designed ...

This new data reveals that not even all dark comets are the same: there are at least two different kinds. And, in turn, the ...

Its speed and path around the sun don't match a typical asteroid, but it also has no bright tail or nucleus (icy core) we normally associate with comets. However, 'Oumuamua has erratic motions ...