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Space.com

The moon will be almost exactly half illuminated by the sun on Sunday (Oct. 2), during a phase called the first quarter. This will also mark the closest the moon is to Earth during its first quarter phases of 2022.

Maui Now

On Monday, the world watched as a spacecraft called Dart going almost 14,000 mph crashed with pinpoint accuracy into an asteroid a little bigger than the Rome Colosseum after traveling seven million miles from Earth. NASA’s …

CNET

NASA’s plucky Ingenuity helicopter rose off the Martian ground on Sept. 24 for a short repositioning flight, and it looks like it wasn’t alone. Navigation images from the flight seem to show a light-colored, flowing debris object stuck to the chopper for …

Big Island Now

On Monday, the world watched as a spacecraft called Dart going almost 14,000 mph crashed with pinpoint accuracy into an asteroid a little bigger than the Rome Colosseum after traveling seven million miles from Earth. NASA’s $325 …

Duluth News Tribune

This image of the spiral galaxy IC 5332, taken by the Webb Telescope’s MIRI instrument, shows whorls of dust that echo the spiral galaxy’s starry arms seen in a similar photo taken in visible light by the Hubble Space Telescope.

The Bakersfield Californian

The DART hit its mark! At 4:14 p.m. Monday, the Double Asteroid Redirection Test spacecraft successfully collided with the small asteroid Dimorphos that is orbiting the larger asteroid Didymos. It was a test of nudging an asteroid, which is a technique …

The Weather Channel

Ever since the Mesopotamian era — the cradle of human civilisation — man has been fighting wars to win over territories. These wars have constantly created boundaries on the world map, splitting the land into smaller sections.

Noozhawk

The 230-foot-tall rocket will carry 52 Starlink satellites for the SpaceX campaign to create a constellation of craft to provide Internet access around the globe. If the launch …

The Hindu

The Rs 450 crore Mars Orbiter Mission was launched onboard PSLV-C25 on November five, 2013, and the MOM spacecraft was successfully inserted into Martian orbit on September 24, 2014 in its first attempt.

Universe Today

NASA’s Mars Sample Return Mission is inching closer and closer. The overall mission architecture just hit a new milestone when Perseverance collected the first sample that will be sent back. But what happens once that sample actually gets here?