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NASA's DART spacecraft hits target asteroid in first planetary defense test

NASA's DART spacecraft successfully slammed into a distant asteroid at hypersonic speed on Monday in the world's first test of a planetary defense system, designed to prevent a potential doomsday meteorite collision with Earth.

Reuters

NASA to slam spacecraft into enormous asteroid tonight - when and how to watch

The historic crash will test our abilities to divert dangerous objects from hitting Earth.

Daily Record

NASA is about to crash a spacecraft into an asteroid

The test is set for Monday evening.

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Nasa Dart spacecraft to smash into asteroid to ‘prepare’ Earth

The collision will help scientists to prepare for an asteroid that might pose a threat to Earth

Evening Standard

How to see Jupiter tonight, as the planet makes its closest approach to Earth

It will be another 107 years before Jupiter comes this close to Earth

Evening Standard

Jupiter is at its biggest and brightest this week. Here's how to see it in Australia

Jupiter was already going to appear bigger and brighter thanks to a phenomenon that happens every 13 months, but NASA says the view will be "extraordinary" this time because it coincides with another celestial event.

ABC News

NASA's 'Double Asteroid Redirection Test', or DART, has made impact with an asteroid. Here's what you need to know

If an asteroid was hurtling towards Earth, like the one that wiped out the dinosaurs, could we stop it? That's what NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (or DART) is trying to work out.

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How to see Jupiter's closest approach to Earth in 59 years in Scotland

Scottish stargazers are in for a treat as the gas giant makes its closest approach to Earth since 1963.

The National (Scotland)

Why everyone 'needs' to look up after it goes dark on Monday night

A woman has gone viral on TikTok after pleading with everyone to go outside once night falls

Liverpool Echo

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.

Inverse

Police question graduate who travelled with missing Brit professor last seen in desert

Chilean police confirmed this weekend Tom Marsh had not travelled alone to the observatory on the outskirts of the Atacama Desert, where he had been working as a visiting astronomer

Daily Mirror

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’

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Tributes mark rocket scientist Satish Dhawan’s 102nd birth anniversary at Sriharikota

SDSC Director A. Rajarajan recall his services as the Chairman of Space Commission

Inverse

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.

The Guardian - UK

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 Independent UK

US spy satellite launched into orbit from California

A classified satellite for the U.S. National Reconnaissance Office has launched into orbit aboard a United Launch Alliance Delta 4 Heavy rocket

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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

Inverse

Super-Earths may be the best places to look for alien life

Recent research has shown that the best chance astronomers have of finding life on another planet is likely to be on a super-Earth similar to the ones found recently.

Tribune News Service

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.

Orlando Sentinel

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.

Axios

NASA delaying Moon rocket launch due to Tropical Storm Ian

The launch was originally scheduled for Tuesday.

Reuters

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.

Inverse

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.

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