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NASA Kicked Asteroid Off Course in Test to Save Earth

NASA on Tuesday celebrated exceeding expectations during a mission to deflect a distant asteroid, in a sci-fi like test of humanity's ability to stop an incoming cosmic object from devastating life on Earth. The fridge-sized Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) impactor deliberately smashed into the moonlet asteroid Dimorphos on September…

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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.

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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,…

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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.

Inverse

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.

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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

The Loop: Southern states brace for 'widespread' rain, UK spy boss says Russian forces 'desperate', and Angela Lansbury dies — as it happened

The news Australia is searching for, and all the news that happened while you snoozed: This is The Loop, your quick catch-up for this morning's stories as they happen.

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NASA says its asteroid defense test was a success

NASA smashed a spacecraft into an asteroid in an attempt to throw it off course. The mission succeeded beyond expectations, officials said.

WEKU

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

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.

Reuters

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

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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

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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 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

The Hindu

Science This Week | 2022 Nobel Prize, evidence of liquid water on Mars and more

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Tom Cruise could become the first civilian to spacewalk for an upcoming film

Tom Cruise could go where no actor has gone before, as Universal chairwoman Donna Langley has hinted at plans to send the Hollywood star to the International Space Station

Evening Standard

Tech & Science Daily: Nasa probe’s best shot of icy Jupiter moon Europa

Plus! Could new Google Pixel 7 be an iPhone killer?

The Hindu

SpaceX delivers Russian, Native American women to International Space Station

SpaceX has delivered a fresh crew to the International Space Station for NASA, including the first Russian to launch from the U.S. in 20 years

Reuters

Latest four-member SpaceX crew, including cosmonaut, welcomed aboard space station

A four-member SpaceX Crew Dragon team, including a Russian cosmonaut and the first Native American woman sent to orbit, safely docked with the International Space Station (ISS) on Thursday and moved aboard to begin a five-month science mission.

The Independent UK

SpaceX delivers Russian, Native American women to station

SpaceX has delivered a fresh crew to the International Space Station for NASA, including the first Russian to launch from the U.S. in 20 years

Space

Orionid meteor shower 2025: When, where and how to see it

Learn when, where, and how to see the Orionid meteor shower, peaking in late October this year.

Irish Mirror

Solar storm set for ‘direct hit’ with earth amid ominous NASA warning about what’s to come

The debris from an explosion on the sun could be headed towards earth. It comes as NASA recently issued an ominous warning that 'an upswing in space weather will impact our lives and technology on Earth, as well as astronauts in space'.

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