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SpaceX spacecraft fragments to be collected from NSW Snowy Mountains farms to be stored, sent overseas

The Australian Space Agency has begun to collect pieces of spacecraft fragments from the NSW Snowy Mountains, some of which will be sent to the US.

ABC News

NASA confirms humans changed the motion of a celestial object for the first time

NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test mission, better known as DART, successfully shifted the orbit of an asteroid known as Dimorphos — a huge victory for local scientists and engineers whose work was involved in the mission, NASA officials announced Tuesday.

Tribune News Service

Japan's Epsilon rocket failed after launch - Kyodo

The Japanese space agency's Epsilon rocket failed after it was launched on Wednesday, Kyodo News and other domestic media reported.

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NASA successfully shifted an asteroid's orbit – DART spacecraft crashed into and moved Dimorphos

NASA recently crashed a spacecraft into an asteroid in an attempt to push the rocky traveler off its trajectory. The Double Asteroid Redirection Test – or DART – was meant to test one potential strategy for preventing an asteroid from colliding with Earth. The collision occurred on Sept. 27, 2022,…

The Conversation

Nasa successfully diverts asteroid in first Earth defence test

Mission shows Nasa 'serious as a defender of this planet'

Wales Online

NASA asteroid crash a smashing success

The mission sets a precedent as to how humanity might deflect a deadly Earth-bound asteroid in the future

Salon

NASA confirms DART asteroid defense mission was a success in planetary first

NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) successfully moved an asteroid, space agency officials confirmed on Tuesday, October 11.

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NASA says DART spacecraft successfully alters asteroid’s path

Taking a page out of science fiction and Hollywood scripts, US space agency aims to prevent collision with Earth.

Al Jazeera

Youngster from Kochi captures classic images of Andromeda using basic equipment

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The Hindu

Nasa says its Dart spacecraft changed asteroid's path in 'watershed moment for humanity'

Nasa's DART spacecraft achieved its primary goal in changing the direction of an asteroid through sheer kinetic force, as part of a $330 million mission in September

Daily Mirror

NASA strike test successfully altered asteroid's trajectory

A spacecraft that plowed into a small, harmless asteroid millions of miles away succeeded in shifting its orbit, NASA said Tuesday in announcing the results of its save-the-world test.

France 24

‘Watershed moment for humanity’: Nasa hails success of asteroid mission that was test to save planet

Nasa says its spacecraft managed to nudge the asteroid out of its natural orbit

Evening Standard

Rare solar eclipse this month will look like 'someone has taken a bite out of the Sun'

It will appear as if a chunk is missing from the Sun during the morning of October 25.

Daily Record

Asteroid's path altered in NASA's first test of planetary defense system

The spacecraft NASA deliberately crashed into an asteroid last month succeeded in nudging the rocky moonlet from its natural path into a faster orbit, marking the first time humanity has altered the motion of a celestial body, the U.S. space agency announced on Tuesday.

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The Independent UK

Nasa’s Dart mission changed path of asteroid: ‘A defender of the planet’

Nasa Administrator Bill Nelson said the test proved the tactic could be used to save the planet from an asteroid threat

The Independent UK

Smashing success: NASA asteroid strike results in big nudge

NASA says a spacecraft that plowed into a small, harmless asteroid millions of miles away last month succeeded in shifting its orbit

Wales Online

First satellite prepared for Space Cornwall rocket launch that's 'meteoric' for the UK

Amber-1 is being prepared to be loaded into the LauncherOne rocket system that will send it into orbit.

Inverse

Whoosh! An airplane-sized asteroid will swoop near Earth this week

Object 2020 TO2 will come within 400,000 miles of Earth at blazing-fast speeds, but worry not.

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Zenger

The Hunter’s Moon, The 1st Full Moon Of Fall, Will Rise This Weekend

Two weeks have passed since the official start of autumn, and one of the first astronomical events of the new season is about to take place over the weekend

Benzinga

First He Ruined Pluto Being A Planet, Now Neil deGrasse Tyson Wants To Ruin 2022's Biggest Movie

If you were born before the year 2006, you might remember learning about the nine planets in school. Fast forward to Aug. 24, 2006, and there were only eight planets. An astrophysicist that helped declassify a planet is now trying to ruin the biggest movie of 2022 and its impossible…

Zenger

Packed Space Station Welcomes History-Making Astronaut

Astronaut Nicole Mann made history as she blasted off into space to begin an extended stay on the International Space Station.

Inverse

The Webb Telescope can verify a huge exoplanet theory — and make a historic discovery

Until now, models of planetary formation pointed to most planets forming with either too much or too little water. This was especially prominent around the most common type of stars in the galaxy – red dwarves.

The Conversation

Our moon has been slowly drifting away from Earth over the past 2.5 billion years

Looking up at the moon in the night sky, you would never imagine that it is slowly moving away from Earth. But we know otherwise. In 1969, NASA’s Apollo missions installed reflective panels on the moon. These have shown that the moon is currently moving 3.8 cm away from the…

Daily Mirror

SpaceX rocket captured in out-of-this-world photo with huge gold Moon as it blasts off

An incredible new photo from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station shows the moment a SpaceX rocket launched on its latest mission with a massive golden Hunter's Moon in the background

Irish Mirror

Irish stargazers can catch one last glimpse of rare Hunter's Moon

October's first full moon, the Hunter's Moon, was visible first on Sunday, October 9

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