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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.

The spacecraft that NASA deliberately crashed into an asteroid last month succeeded in nudging the rocky moonlet out ...

Data obtained since the spacecraft intentionally crashed into an asteroid show that the impact altered the space rock’s orbit even more than intended.

NASA spaceship deflected asteroid in test to save Earth

By Steve Gorman (Reuters) -The spacecraft that NASA deliberately crashed into an asteroid last month succeeded in nudging the rocky moonlet out of its...

Smashing a probe into threatening space rocks is a strategy to defend Earth, an experiment confirms.

A NASA spacecraft successfully nudged a harmless asteroid aside in deep space, shifting the asteroids orbit in a test mission to save the Earth.

The spacecraft that NASA deliberately crashed into an asteroid last month succeeded in nudging the rocky moonlet out of its natural orbit - the first time humanity has altered the motion of a celestial body - NASA officials announced on Tuesday.

NASA on Tuesday said it had succeeded in deflecting an asteroid in a historic test of humanity's ability to stop an incoming cosmic object from devastating life on Earth.

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