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NASAs DART mission, which seeks to use specially designed impactor spacecraft to knock planet killing asteroids off-track has successfully targeted its first space rock, the asteroid Dimophos..

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — A NASA spacecraft closed in on an asteroid at blistering speed Monday in an unprecedented dress rehearsal for the day a killer rock menaces Earth.

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

A NASA spacecraft will deliberately slam into an asteroid Monday, and its all in the name of planetary protection.

A NASA spacecraft has rammed an asteroid in an unprecedented test to see if a potentially menacing space rock could be knocked off course

NASAs DART spacecraft successfully collided with Dimorphos on Monday.

NASA has successfully smashed a spacecraft into an asteroid seven million miles from Earth.

The Double Asteroid Redirection Test [DART] is a world-first full-scale mission to trial technology for protecting Earth from potential asteroid collisions.

Will smack spacecraft into asteroid to deflect its orbit, testing ability to stop cosmic objects from devastating life on Earth.

NASA on Monday conducted the first ever mission to intentionally crash a spacecraft into an asteroid.