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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — 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

DART mission proves to be a success, altering the asteroid's orbit by 32 minutes around Didymos

We now have confirmation that NASA can deflect a threatening near-Earth asteroid. But this is just one experiment.

Its the first time humanity has altered the motion of a natural body in space.

Continue reading to learn how a planetary defense test's DART hit altered an asteroid's orbit.

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.

NASA has released the results from the Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission and if the space agencys planetary defense mission was successful.

The agency's DART mission exceeded expectations, marking the first time humans have changed the trajectory of a celestial body

Data analyzed by the Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) team over the last couple of weeks confirms the impact worked as intended. Before DART slammed into the...

NASA confirms that its DART spacecraft nudged the asteroid Dimorphos into a new orbit