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Stay current with all the latest and breaking news from Space, compare headlines and perspectives between news sources on stories happening today. In total, 3,764 stories have been published about Space which Ground News has aggregated in the past 3 months.Stay current with all the latest and breaking news from Space, compare headlines and perspectives between news sources on stories happening today. In total, 3,764 stories have been published about Space which Ground News has aggregated in the past 3 months.
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US & Canada · Cape CanaveralThe Double Asteroid Redirection Test, or DART, is the world's first attempt to change an asteroid's motion by ramming a space probe into it. Neither Dimorphos nor Didymos poses a threat to Earth, but seeing how well DART's maneuver worked will reveal how easy it is to tamper with an asteroid. The DART spacecraft weighs only as much as a couple of vending machines.See the Story
NASA smashes spacecraft into asteroid seven million miles from Earth in 'planetary defence' trial
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US & Canada · New YorkIn honor of World Space Week, which takes place Oct. 4-10, Stacker compiled a list of key astronomy and astrophysics terms. The Big Bang Theory is a model describing the origin of the universe. Alpha Centauri is the name of the closest star system to earth.See the Story
50 space terms for understanding the universe
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GoogleNASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) made contact with the asteroid Didymos on Monday evening. The spacecraft journeyed for a little over 10 months to test if it would be possible to save Earth from future hazardous asteroids or comets by booting them off course. DART is about 11 billion pounds smaller than its target, the craft aimed to alter the asteroid's course.See the Story
Success! NASA's first planetary defense test hits asteroid.
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NASANASA's Artemis 1 moon rocket rolled back to shelter ahead of Hurricane Ian. The agency is looking at the "tradeoffs," but launch window options will be limited until November. NASA's Crew-5 astronaut mission for the International Space Station is currently slated for Oct. 4.See the Story
NASA Secures Artemis I Moon Rocket Indoors as Hurricane Ian Nears
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Military · Colorado SpringsU.S. Space Command is currently located at Peterson Space Force Base, Colorado. The Department of the Air Force has recommended that Space Command move to Redstone Arsenal in Huntsville, Alabama. The basing decision has been reviewed by the Department of Defense Inspector General and the Government Accountability Office.See the Story
Lawmakers Plea for Colorado Springs' Space Command Headquarters, As Air Force Decision Looms
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US & CanadaStudents from New England Sci-Tech conducted a live space-chat with astronauts on the International Space Station. The space station has to be flying over one of our ground stations& this one happened to be in Belgium. The STEM students of the ARRIS program were prepared with an array of questions.See the Story
STEM students make contact with astronauts on the International Space Station
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BusinessNASA will hold a media briefing today following the approximately 10-hour rollback of the Artemis 1 mission's Space Launch System (SLS) megarocket. Live coverage of the press conference will be available here at Space.com, via NASA Television (opens in new tab), starting around 2 p.m EDT (1800 GMT) Artemis 1 was supposed to launch toward the moon today, following several delays for technical or weather reasons.See the Story
Listen live today as NASA discusses Artemis 1 moon rocket's hurricane rollback
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NASADART crashed into the 525-foot-wide (160 meters) asteroid moon Dimorphos as planned on Monday evening (September 26) The dramatic collision has sparked a lot of speculation online that NASA may have inadvertently sent a harmless space rock to Earth. The binary nature of the Didymos system serves as a kind of protective brake against unwanted orbital changes.See the Story
NASA's DART asteroid impact won't make Dimorphos hit Earth — but here's what would happen if it did
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SpaceOver sixty years ago, the first search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI), known as Project Ozma, was conducted. This campaign was led by legendary astronomer Frank Drake, which relied on the Robert C. ByrdGreen Bank Telescope (GBT) in West Virginia to listen to Tau Ceti and Epsilon Eridani for any signs of radio transmissions. Since then, the field of SETI has become more sophisticated thanks to more advanced radio telescopes, improved da…See the Story
Upcoming Missions Could Search for Ancient Alien Technology Within the Solar System
NASASLS and Orion spacecraft arrived back in the VAB at 9:15 a.m. Eastern Sept. 27. The agency is now planning work to perform on the SLS while in the building. NASA also had to deal with a fire reported about two and a half hours after SLS arrived back.See the Story
NASA to assess SLS work and next launch opportunities after rollback
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