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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.

NASA successfully crashed a spacecraft into an asteroid on Monday night. These are the final images it captured as it hurtled toward the rocky surface.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - A NASA spacecraft rammed an asteroid at blistering speed Monday in an unprecedented dress rehearsal for the day a killer rock menaces Earth. The galactic slam occurred at a...

The livestream showed images taken by DART's camera as the cube-shaped "impactor" vehicle, no bigger than a vending machine with two rectangular solar arrays, streaked into the asteroid Dimorphos, about the size of a football stadium, at 23:14 GMT some 11 million km from Earth.

The craft traveled 7 million miles (11 million kilometers) and hit just 56 feet (17 meters) off center.

It will be days or weeks before we know how much the asteroid’s path was changed

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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.

NASA successfully crashed a spacecraft into an asteroid on Monday night. These are the final images it captured as it hurtled toward the rocky surface.