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‘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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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

The Independent UK

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.

Wales Online

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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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

Zenger

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…

Benzinga

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.

Zenger

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.

Inverse

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…

The Conversation

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

Daily 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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Wales Online

Rare Hunter's Moon 2022 set to appear not once but twice this month

There will be a second opportunity to see the celestial event for around fifteen minutes

Edinburgh Live

Edinburgh residents can see rare double Hunter's Moon in the sky tonight

Normally a full moon is only visible in the sky for one night but this year's Hunter's Moon will be visible in the sky above the Scottish capital for two evenings.

Asharq Al-Awsat

Russia Successfully Launches Navigation Satellite

Russia launched its Soyuz-2.1b rocket carrying the GLONASS-K navigation system on Monday from a northern cosmodrome, the Interfax news agency reported, citing the defense ministry. "Combat crews of the Space Forces ....

Reuters

Russia successfully launches navigation satellite - Interfax

Russia launched its Soyuz-2.1b rocket carrying the GLONASS-K navigation system on Monday from a northern cosmodrome, the Interfax news agency reported, citing the defence ministry.

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The Guardian - UK

Starwatch: Mars gets a visit from the waning moon

Red planet will make an interesting triangle with the red giant stars Aldebaran and Betelgeuse

Salon

A physicist debunks the Ukraine UFOs

Unidentified Aerial Phenomena, or UAPs, appeared in Ukraine's skies recently. Loeb weighs in on the data

The Guardian - UK

Beam me down: can solar power from space help solve our energy needs?

The latest developments in solar tech offer potential solutions to the energy security crisis – including satellites that would convert sunlight into power for Earth

Orlando Sentinel

SpaceX sunset launch from Canaveral completes Space Coast trio

ORLANDO, Fla. — SpaceX was able to send up a Falcon 9 with a pair of satellites from Cape Canaveral on Saturday at sunset to complete a trio of launches for the Space Coast this week.

ABC News

First step for Australian biologists as study begins to grow durable and sustainable plants in space

Australian scientists are working with a space start-up on a plan to grow plants on the Moon in less than four years, with a native grass in the running to be on the first mission.

Inverse

New study calls a major Mars water theory into question

The research was led by Daniel Lalich, a research associate with the Cornell Center for Astrophysics and Space Science (CCASS).

The Hindu

The meteorite that crashed into a car

The Peekskill meteorite is a meteorite that crashed into a car on October 9, 1992. One of the best viewed and recorded meteorite events, both the meteorite and the car it crashed into are now famous. A.S.Ganesh takes you on a fiery ride from space to Earth…

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