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“This mission shows that NASA is trying to be ready for whatever the universe throws at us,” NASA Administrator Bill Nelson said during a briefing at the space agencys headquarters in Washington.

Hitting the asteroid was just part of the challenge. Now, NASA confirms the September impact of the DART spacecraft has successfully changed the orbit of Dimorphos.

It took days of telescope observations to determine how much the impact altered the asteroid's path around its companion, a bigger space rock.

"It was a bullseye," NASA Administrator Bill Nelson said.

NASA'S first-ever planetary defense test has been deemed a success.On September 26, Nasa carried out the final phase of its DART, or Double Asteroid R

NASA says a spacecraft that plowed into a small, harmless asteroid millions of miles away last month succeeded in shifting its orbit.

WASHINGTON, United States- 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. 000_32L83ZQThis handout picture obtained by the Italian Space Ag

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.

NASA announced that its experimental spacecraft Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) successfully altered the orbit of asteroid Dimorphos.

NASA has said that the experimental spacecraft DART altered the orbit of asteroid Dimorphos as per the mission’s objective.