"Dark comets are a new potential source for having delivered the materials to Earth that were necessary for the development of life," he said, according to Forbes. As researchers continue to study ...

“One of the most important reasons why we study small bodies, like asteroids and comets, is because they tell us about how ...

Farnocchia works at NASA’s Center for Near-Earth Object Studies in California ... Having 14 of these dark comets to study is a boon to the team. The collection still leaves them with more ...

Last year in August, the number of moons orbiting Earth temporarily doubled, admittedly from the low starting point of "one", ...

Comets are balls of frozen gas and ... operated by NASA and the European Space Agency to study the sun. The comet won’t swing close to Earth like Tsuchinshan-Atlas did last year.