As summer slips into the rearview mirror and the fall equinox introduces a whole new era of boldly-hued leaves, cozier ...

Sun poisoning doesn't mean you've been poisoned. It's not a formal medical term, but when people talk about sun poisoning, they're usually talking about a severe sunburn that seems similar to an ...

Earth will likely get another satellite, a mini-moon, tomorrow for two months ... a jumble of space rocks that orbit the sun close to Earth. This is not the first time mini-moons have been ...

2024 PT₅ is only the fifth ever detected mini-moon captured by Earth. A mini-moon is a “temporarily captured orbiter” if it completes at least one full orbit of the Earth before returning to its usual ...

17, 2024. (AP Photo/Kiichiro Sato, File) Updated [hour]:[minute] [AMPM] [timezone], [monthFull] [day], [year] WASHINGTON (AP) — Earth’s moon will soon have some company — a “mini moon.” The mini moon ...

Nope. See, comets are basically big dirty snowballs. When one nears the sun, some of that ice turns to gas, releasing clouds of dust. The sun's light then pushes that dust away in a stream that ...

Earth will capture a miniature, "second moon" this week ... pull and going back to its regular orbit around the sun. "According to the latest data available from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory ...

2024 PT5 will be pulled toward the sun and continue traveling around the solar system. Though 2024 PT5 is relatively small in terms of asteroids, the visiting mini-moon is still about the size of ...

Starting Sept. 29, the Earth will have a temporary second “mini moon.” A new asteroid, named 2024 PT5, is set to briefly orbit the planet, marking a rare celestial event. Discovered in August, this ...

Most space solar array structures are designed to be used horizontally, but on the Moon, vertically oriented structures atop tall masts will be needed to maximize sunlight collection at the lunar ...