In a new study my colleagues and I published in December 2024, we discovered two classes of these elusive dark comets. The solar system is teaming with small bodies such as comets and asteroids.

A strange asteroid-comet hybrid that orbits between Jupiter and Neptune could reveal key details about the birth of our solar ...

In 2017, NASA discovered and later confirmed the first interstellar object to enter our solar system. It wasn't aliens ... their icy surfaces. But not all comets put on such a dazzling display.

The discovery doubles the known number of these mysterious celestial objects across our solar system that ... of the inner dark comets,” Taylor said. “However, these are all hypotheses ...

In 2017, NASA discovered and later confirmed the first interstellar object to enter our Solar System. It wasn’t ... their icy surfaces. But not all comets put on such a dazzling display.