{"id":201718,"date":"2024-12-16T05:09:03","date_gmt":"2024-12-16T11:09:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/cosmic-chameleons-mysterious-dark-comets-may-hold-clues-to-lifes-origins-on-earth"},"modified":"2024-12-16T05:09:03","modified_gmt":"2024-12-16T11:09:03","slug":"cosmic-chameleons-mysterious-dark-comets-may-hold-clues-to-lifes-origins-on-earth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/cosmic-chameleons-mysterious-dark-comets-may-hold-clues-to-lifes-origins-on-earth","title":{"rendered":"Cosmic Chameleons: Mysterious \u201cDark Comets\u201d May Hold Clues to Life\u2019s Origins on Earth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/cosmic-chameleons-mysterious-dark-comets-may-hold-clues-to-lifes-origins-on-earth.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers have doubled the number of known dark comets, identifying two distinct types: larger ones in the outer solar system and smaller ones in the inner solar system.<\/p>\n<p>This discovery raises new questions about their origins and their role in delivering life-sustaining materials to Earth.<\/p>\n<p>Dark Comet Discoveries<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers have doubled the number of known dark comets, identifying two distinct types: larger ones in the outer solar system and smaller ones in the inner solar system. This discovery raises new questions about their origins and their role in delivering life-sustaining materials to Earth. Dark Comet Discoveries<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1635,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-201718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-materials","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201718","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=201718"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201718\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}