2 populations of dark comets in the solar system could tell researchers where the Earth got its oceans
- Written by Darryl Z. Seligman, Postdoctoral Fellow in Physics and Astronomy, Michigan State University
Dark comets accelerate through space but don't have a dusty tail like most comets. Adina Feinstein and NASA’s Earth ObservatoryThe water that makes up the oceans acted as a key ingredient for the development of life on Earth. However, scientists still do not know where the water here on Earth came from in the first place.
One leading idea is...