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This is the first successful test of our ability to redirect potentially cataclysmic asteroids.The asteroids orbit changed by more than half an hour.

WASHINGTON (dpa-AFX) - NASA has confirmed that the Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft's artificial impact on Dimorphos, the asteroid moonlet of Didymos, has successfully altered

NASA says the spacecraft that intentionally slammed into an asteroid successfully changed its course.

The agency was testing to see if in the future a killer rock could be nudged out of Earth’s way.

NASA sent a spacecraft toward an asteroid that was millions of miles away from Earth and was able to throw the asteroid off its path.

NASA on Tuesday celebrated exceeding expectations during a mission to deflect a distant asteroid, in a sci-fi like test of humanitys ability to stop an incoming cosmic object from devastating life on Earth.

NASA said the DART mission is humanity’s first full-scale demonstration of asteroid deflection technology.

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.

The spacecraft that 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.

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