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On 26 September, Nasa’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test successfully slammed into an asteroid in the name of planetary defence. Here’s why Nasa is hurling spacecraft at space rocks.

NASAs Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) has successfully collided with its target asteroid millions of miles away, and here are its final images.

It's a hit. After 10 months flying in space, NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) successfully "impacted" its target asteroid, Dimorphos.

The aim of the mission was to demonstrate that dangerous incoming rocks can be deflected by deliberately smashing into them.

The mission is part of NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test, or DART. The agency called it “the world’s first mission to test technology for defending Earth” against asteroids or other space dangers.

/PRNewswire/ -- After 10 months flying in space, NASAs Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) – the worlds first planetary defense technology demonstration...

NASA crashed the DART spacecraft into the asteroid Dimorphos to see if they can knock it off course for future asteroids headed for Earth.

The test will help scientists learn how to stop catastrophic asteroid impacts.

For the first time, a NASA spacecraft, DART, was purposefully slammed into an asteroid in order to change the small body’s orbital period.

A NASA spacecraft will deliberately slam into an asteroid Monday, and its all in the name of planetary protection.