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What are lunar eclipses and how do they occur?

Lunar eclipses occur when Earth blocks the sun and casts a shadow over the surface of the moon. We explore the different types of lunar eclipses here.

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Top 10 nature memoirs

Moving on from writing that holds the natural world at arm’s length, authors have begun using intimate life to show nature as a protagonist in itself

The Guardian - UK

First Thing: Cuba left without power as Hurricane Ian heads to Florida

Island’s electricity grid collapses after hurricane hits, as people in Florida told to evacuate. Plus, Bowie’s Starman lyrics fly at auction

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Editorial: Whether it's asteroids, viruses or climate change, science is humanity's hope

NASA this week successfully did what it normally tries to avoid, and destroyed one of its own spacecraft — by ramming it into an asteroid. It was the first step in an experiment that could one day spare humanity from the fate of the dinosaurs by knocking a celestial threat…

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Scotland could spot Northern Lights this weekend as solar storm triggers breathtaking spectacle

Scots have an increased chance of seeing aurora borealis in the coming days.

Daily Record

Earth is under threat, yet you would scarcely know it

Unlike most of the media, the Guardian resists political or commercial influence in order to keep the climate crisis front and centre

The Guardian - UK

Sago worm billed as astronaut food

Thai aerospace engineers have entered the second phase of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Nasa) competition by proposing Thai food wisdom -- in the form of the sago worm -- to feed future astronauts during long-duration space voyages, according to the Public Relations Department.

Bangkok Post

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‘This one’s for the dinosaurs’: how the world reacted to Nasa’s asteroid smashing success

Astrophiles and professionals celebrated humanity’s accomplishment at hitting a speeding space rock with a probe the size of a vending machine

The Guardian - AU

Nasa’s spacecraft collision with asteroid renews calls for space debris crackdown

Earth’s orbit is ‘littered’ with space debris, causing near-collisions, a space lawyer says

Evening Standard

Solar geoengineering might work, but local temperatures could keep rising for years

Imagine a future where, despite efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions quickly, parts of the world have become unbearably hot. Some governments might decide to “geoengineer” the planet by spraying substances into the upper atmosphere to form fine reflective aerosols – a process known as stratospheric aerosol injection.

The Conversation

Explained | The NASA spacecraft-asteroid collision

What is the ‘kick’ method which was used to deflect an asteroid headed towards earth? How can the technique be further utilised for space mining technologies?

The Hindu

The asteroid threat gets real

Scientists say it's time to prepare for the possibility that one could be found on a collision course with Earth.

Axios

This is what NASA's spacecraft saw just seconds before slamming into an asteroid

NASA successfully crashed a spacecraft into an asteroid on Monday night. These are the final images it captured as it hurtled toward the rocky surface.

WEKU

Artemis I leaves launch pad ahead of Hurricane Ian

ORLANDO, Fla. — NASA made the call Monday to guard against Hurricane Ian and got the slow gears rolling before midnight to send its Artemis I mission hardware back to the garage at Kennedy Space Center.

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Seth Meyers on Donald Trump: ‘What is wrong with you?’

Late-night hosts discuss the former president referring to ‘nuclear’ as ‘the N-word’, Putin’s escalation of threats in Ukraine and Nasa’s asteroid defense test

The Hindu

BARC sets up Radon geo-station at Cusat

This is the first-of-its-kind geo-station, an earthquake early warning system, to be installed in Kerala

Reuters

Seismograph spiked twice on day of Baltic pipeline leaks - Germany's GFZ

A seismograph on the Danish island of Bornholm twice recorded spikes representing earth tremors on Monday, the day on which the Nord Stream 1 and 2 gas pipelines underwent dramatic falls in pressure, German geological research centre GFZ said.

Evening Standard

Tech & Science Daily: Hear Nasa smash asteroid with spacecraft

Nasa’s Dart mission successfully smashes spacecraft into an asteroid in the first-ever 'planetary defense test’.

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NASA crashed a spacecraft into an asteroid – photos show the last moments of the successful DART mission

In a world first, NASA has crashed a spacecraft into an asteroid in an attempt to push the rocky traveler off its trajectory. The Double Asteroid Redirection Test – or DART – is meant to test one potential approach that could prevent an asteroid from colliding with Earth. David Barnhart…

The New Daily

NASA smashes asteroid threat, and raises hopes on Earth

NASA just successfully crashed a spacecraft into an asteroid – and it bodes well for the future of humanity.

Inverse

China’s Mars rover finds new evidence of an ancient waterway on the Red Planet

Zhurong’s radar observations found two fascinating rock layers under the Martian topsoil.

Dublin Live

NASA asteroid mission: Irish professor says DART tech can stop meteor hitting Earth

Ten months after launch, NASA's asteroid-deflecting DART spacecraft neared a planned impact with its target on Monday in a test of the world's first planetary defense system, designed to prevent a doomsday collision with Earth

The Guardian - UK

First Thing: Putin may formally annex Ukrainian territories on Friday

UK Ministry of Defence says Putin may unveil ‘accession of occupied regions’ after referendums. Plus, welcome to pumpkin spice season

Daily Record

Scots capture incredible pictures of Jupiter as planet appears in best view for 59 years

Jupiter made its closest approach to Earth since 1963 on Monday, September 26, according to NASA.

Evening Standard

How big was the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs and where did it land?

Nasa confirmed its spacecraft successfully collided with a 170-metre wide asteroid just after midnight today

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