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Tech & Science Daily: Nasa confirms asteroid successfully diverted

Nasa has said it is a ‘defender’ of the planet, after its DART mission to divert the course of a far away asteroid was successful.

Evening Standard

World's 1st space tourist signs up for flight around moon

The world’s first space tourist has signed up to spin around the moon aboard Elon Musk’s Starship

The Independent UK

Losing ground: how one New Orleans community is sinking

While land is subsiding throughout the city, industrial water use has exacerbated the problem in one predominantly Black and Vietnamese area

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Julia Turns Deadly, Unleashes Flooding Rain In Central America

Julia completed its rare crossover from the Atlantic to the Pacific, one day after making landfall as a Category 1 hurricane.

Zenger

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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,…

The Conversation

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.

Al Jazeera

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.

France 24

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.

Evening Standard

‘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

Reuters

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.

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The Independent UK

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

The Independent UK

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

The Conversation

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

Here are this week’s latest findings and updates in the world of science.

Daily Mirror

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

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