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Australia Seeks to Grow Plants on Moon by 2025

Australian scientists are trying to grow plants on the Moon by 2025 in a new mission unveiled Friday that they said could help pave the way for a future colony. Plant biologist Brett Williams, from the Queensland University of Technology, said seeds would be carried by the Beresheet 2 spacecraft…

Asharq Al-Awsat · Oct 7, 2022

Best moment to glimpse spectacular celestial fireworks from Draconid meteor shower

Brits have the chance to see a spectacular celestial fireworks display from the Draconid meteor shower when the Earth passes through a cloud of cometary dust over the coming days

Daily Mirror · Oct 7, 2022

Draconid meteor shower to put on a lights show in sky on Saturday night

Event is expected to peak in the afternoon but the best time to view it will be just after sunset

Wales Online · Oct 7, 2022

Look up

As Hanle in Ladakh is poised to have India’s first Dark Sky Reserve, prospects for stargazing and astro tourism shine bright

The Hindu · Oct 6, 2022

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.

Space · Oct 6, 2022

Astronomers discover two stars in a daring stellar dance

A white dwarf and the Sun-like star, locked in an ever-shrinking orbit, offer a rare glimpse at how these strange, gravitational wave-making systems evolve.

Inverse · Oct 6, 2022

British fabricated history using Indian astronomical findings: R.N. Ravi

‘In 1772, a British scientist, William Herschel, claimed that the observation made by Indian astronomers that Saturn had seven moons was his own, and the British empire wrote a fictitious history’

The Hindu · Oct 6, 2022

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'.

Irish Mirror · Oct 6, 2022

Best time to see Draconid meteor shower as five-day spectacle begins over Scotland

Stargazers have until Monday to take in the annual show.

Daily Record · Oct 6, 2022

Ad-block this: Space billboards could soon be coming to London’s skies

You will need more than ad-block plugins to evade these ads beamed from satellites

Evening Standard · Oct 6, 2022