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Nasa has successfully crashed a spacecraft into a small asteroid as part of a planetary protection test mission. While this asteroid – named Dimorphos &nd...

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has successfully crashed a self-driving satellite into an asteroid in its first "planetary defence test".

NASA now hopes the collision will change the trajectory of the asteroid, in a first-of-its-kind planetary defence test.

An exciting NASA project unfolded in space on Sept. 26 as scientists slammed a spacecraft into an asteroid millions of miles away from Earth, and Northern Arizona University played a role in the historic project.

Rod Pyle, expert in space, author, journalist, and publisher of Ad Astra magazine joins the show.

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Washington, Sep 26 (EFE).- NASA on Monday successfully crashed a spacecraft the size of a vending machine into a football stadium-sized asteroid in order to deflect it in the world’s first planetary defense test. At 7.14 pm EDT (23:14 GMT), the space agency’s DART (Double Asteroid Redirection Test) spacecraft crashed head-on into the asteroid Dimorphos …

NASA has finally crashed its DART spacecraft into an asteroid, changing its orbit, and you can get a demonstration by simply Googling NASA DART.

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

"at a speed of just under 4 miles per second"