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The spacecraft hit the harmless asteroid 7 million miles away. It will be days or weeks until we know whether the impact affected its orbit.

The goal of this mission is to see if it's possible to change an asteroid's orbit.

If the first-ever attempt to knock a space rock off course works, it could provide a blueprint to protect Earth from a killer asteroid.

The first of its kind mission was meant to see if crashing into an asteroid would be able to divert its path, should one ever head toward Earth.

After 10 months of flying in space, NASAs Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) -- the worlds first planetary defence technology demonstration -- successfully impacted its asteroid target, the agencys first attempt to move an asteroid in space.

DART has crashed into the asteroid Dimorphos? When will we know if the mission was a success?

NASA’s asteroid-deflecting DART spacecraft successfully struck a football stadium-sized asteroid in a historic test of the world’s first ...

The Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) is a first step toward defending Earth from threatening space rocks

The Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) is the the first attempt at protecting the Earth should an asteroid one day threaten our place in space.

A NASA spacecraft rammed an asteroid at blistering speed Monday in an unprecedented dress rehearsal for the day a killer rock menaces Earth.