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In a world first, NASA's DART mission is about to smash into an asteroid. What will we learn?

On September 26 at 11.15pm UTC, NASA’s DART mission (Double Asteroid Redirection Test) will be the first to deliberately and measurably change the motion of a significant body in our Solar System. In other words, it will smash into an asteroid.

The Conversation

Paisley's amateur 'rocketeers' who paved the way for Nasa's Apollo programme

In the 1930s, a group of Paisley 'buddies' took one small step for mankind by pioneering a new rocket technology that would one day make Neil Armstrong the first man to step on the lunar surface.

Glasgow Live

We’ve dumped over 15,000 pounds of trash on Mars

Humans have left garbage on Mars from discarded hardware, along with inactive and crashed spacecraft. It could pose a risk to future missions.

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Target Venus not Mars for first crewed mission to another planet, experts say

Despite its ‘hellish’ environment, scientists argue there are good reasons to focus on ‘Earth’s sister’

The Guardian - UK

Biden declares state of emergency in Florida as Tropical Storm Ian strengthens into hurricane

Tropical Storm Ian is expected to strengthen into a hurricane by the end of Sunday before it reaches Florida mid-week

The Independent UK

Mars’ ancient lakes could help discover life on the Red Planet

A new study suggests that some ancient lakes on Mars were more suitable to host living organisms, which could inform the search for life on Mars.

Inverse

Jupiter is coming its closest to Earth in decades

Jupiter will be some 367 million miles from Earth on Monday, the closest it's been since 1963. It coincides with Jupiter being on the opposite side of Earth from the sun — when it'll be its brightest.

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Nasa’s Dart probe to smash into asteroid in first Earth defence test

Aim is to see whether space rocks can be deflected should one threaten humans with same fate as dinosaurs

The Guardian - UK

Nasa delays Artemis 1 moon rocket launch again as tropical storm Ian looms

Third delay in the past month for test flight as technical issues and weather hamper US effort to return to the moon after five decades

The Guardian - AU

NASA set to ram distant asteroid in bid to avoid future catastrophes on Earth

On Monday evening, a robotic NASA spacecraft is programmed to ram itself into a distant asteroid at 14,000 miles per hour in deep space to demonstrate the agency’s future ability to defend Earth from hazardous space rocks.

Tribune News Service

NASA stands down from Tuesday launch for Artemis I, might roll back

ORLANDO, Fla. — With the approaching threat of what is forecast to be Hurricane Ian, NASA finally threw in the towel for a launch attempt Tuesday of its Artemis I mission to the moon from Kennedy Space Center.

Orlando Sentinel

NASA delaying Moon rocket launch due to Tropical Storm Ian

The launch was originally scheduled for Tuesday.

Axios

NASA delays the Artemis 1 moon mission for a third time as a tropical storm approaches

The launch of the uncrewed space vehicle was scheduled for Tuesday but is being pushed back because Tropical Storm Ian might hit Florida next week as a hurricane.

WEKU

NASA's Artemis moon launch delayed as storm expected in Florida

NASA said on Saturday that it was scrapping Tuesday's plans to launch Artemis, the U.S. return to the moon after five decades, noting concerns about a tropical storm headed to Florida.

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20 years ago, astronomers rediscovered the first exoplanet ever found

51 Pegasi b is often seen as the first confirmed exoplanet. But seven years before, astronomers found something at Gamma Cephei A b — they just had to prove it was real.

The Independent UK

NASA delays moon rocket launch due to potential hurricane

NASA is skipping next week's launch attempt of its new moon rocket because of a tropical storm that's expected to become a major hurricane

The Hindu

What clues do the newly formed craters on Mars reveal?

An international team of researchers with NASA’s InSight mission recently located four new craters c

The Hindu

NASA’s spacecraft to test whether an asteroid can be deflected by crashing into it

A tiny deflection could be sufficient to prove that this technique can actually change the path of an asteroid on a collision path with the Earth

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One NASA asset will be critical to Moon and asteroid missions' success

Different missions are vying for a limited number of antennas. And DART and Artemis are running right up against each other.

The Independent UK

AP News Digest 4:15 a.m.

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Daily Mirror

Life on Mars hope as machine produces oxygen on red planet for the first time

A team has been able to churn out enough oxygen to sustain astronauts on Mars over the past 18 months — all from a piece of kit the size of a lunchbox

The Hindu

Approaching storm may delay launch try for NASA moon rocket

This would be the third launch attempt for the Space Launch System rocket, the most powerful ever built by NASA.

Daily Mirror

Tom Cruise discusses his love of Britain as he says it's 'just like he's seen in movies'

Tom Cruise has opened up about his love of Britain, explaining that the countryside, the people and the history are part of the charm - having filmed several projects here over the course of his career

Inverse

Artemis I Moon launch may be delayed again — and NASA can't do anything about it

NASA hopes the next 24 hours have good news to launch on Tuesday. But an incoming storm system could make things difficult.

The Independent UK

Approaching storm may delay launch try for NASA moon rocket

NASA's new moon rocket could face more launch delays, this time by tropical weather

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