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A spacecraft that NASA plowed into a small, harmless asteroid millions of kilometres away succeeded in shifting its orbit.

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

NASA has officially declared the DART mission a success after observation showed the asteroid it struck has significantly changed its orbit.

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

The test verifies a possible technique for nudging a threatening asteroid or comet off course before it could impact Earth.

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

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

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) -- A spacecraft that plowed into a small, harmless asteroid millions of miles away succeeded in shifting its orbit, NASA said

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.

“We showed the world that Nasa is serious as a defender of this planet,” said Nasa chief Bill Nelson.