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A spacecraft that plowed into a small, harmless asteroid millions of miles away succeeded in shifting its orbit, NASA said Tuesday in announcing the results of its save-the-world test.

NASA smashed a spacecraft into an asteroid in an attempt to throw it off course. The mission succeeded beyond expectations, officials said.

The spacecraft NASA deliberately crashed into an asteroid last month succeeded in nudging the rocky moonlet from its natural path into a faster orbit, marking the first time humanity has altered the motion of a celestial body, the U.S. space agency announced on Tuesday.

NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission was a big success after the spacecraft's crash into Dimorphos altered the latter's trajectory.

Officials provide an analysis of the planetary defense mission that launched from Vandenberg Space Force Base in November

Scientists have now confirmed the orbit of a 160m-wide (520ft) space rock known as Dimorphos was altered when the Dart probe struck it head on last month.

And this means that if necessary, we can protect the Earth from asteroid collisions...

It's hard to overstate the importance of the DART mission’s success.

NASA’s DART Changes Motion Of Asteroid

Remember that asteroid that NASA intentionally hit with a spacecraft a while ago? Well, it turns out that the people working there are great at math and ...