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Space.com

SpaceX will launch Europe’s Hera spacecraft toward the asteroid Dimorphos for a post-impact evaluation on Monday (Oct. 7), and you can watch the liftoff live. The European Space Agency’s Hera mission will visit Dimorphos — the asteroid that NASA’s DART …

Livescience.com

Maggie Aderin-Pocock never imagined she’d become one of the United Kingdom’s most famous scientists. Best known for co-hosting the BBC’s astronomy TV program “The Sky at Night,” the space scientist and broadcaster rose from unlikely circumstances to pursue …

Florida Today

(This story has been updated to reflect the latest information from the FAA.) In 2022, a NASA spacecraft intentionally crashed into an asteroid to test a planetary defense system — could the impact redirect the asteroid? That was the question, …

Yahoo News

This past summer was the hottest summer since about the year 1880, this year’s hurricane season started with Beryl — the earliest Category 4 hurricane on record — and a report published in June confirmed that human-driven global warming is at an all-time …

Reuters

WASHINGTON, Oct 6 (Reuters) – The SpaceX Falcon 9 vehicle is authorized to return to flight for a planned mission scheduled to launch on Oct. 7 from a station in Florida, the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration said on Sunday. “The SpaceX Falcon 9 …

Livescience.com

How to watch the Draconid meteor shower peak on Oct. 8 and 9 in the tail of a cosmic dragon.

NASASpaceflight.com

In June 2023, the joint European Space Agency (ESA) and Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) BepiColombo mission performed a flyby of its target planet — Mercury. During the flyby, the spacecraft experienced a variety of phenomena mainly caused …

WOODTV.com

(KTLA) – A second moon has officially entered Earth’s orbit — sort of. Although it’s being called a “mini-moon,” the object is actually an asteroid named 2024 PT5. It has been temporarily captured by Earth’s gravitational pull.

Livemint

Solar storm 2024: American scientists have recently warned of a solar storm following a powerful ‘X class solar flare’, which is likely to hit Earth. In India, the incoming solar storm could disrupt telecommunications and satellites, said ISRO experts, …

European Space Agency

The next spacecraft to be flown from ESOC, Hera, is scheduled for launch from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket this month. Hera is Europe’s first asteroid mission and will be …