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On October 11, local time, NASA released a set of photos showing the spacecraft of the "Double Asteroid Redirection Test" (DART) mission hitting the asteroid "Didymos" on September 26. A few minutes later, the asteroid spewed some debris. On the 11th, NASA held a press conference saying that the DART spacecraft successfully collided with the target asteroid "Dimorphos" and deviated from its original orbit. Image source: Visual China

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NASA has completed a key step of its "Double Asteroid Redirection Test" (DART), smashing a satellite roughly the size of a vending machine into a small moon that's about half-a-mile in diameter. The moon, Dimorphos, is orbiting an even larger...

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NASA began its mission for the "Double Asteroid Redirection Test" on Monday, which saw the DART spacecraft intentionally crash into the Dimorphos asteroid. The mission was intended to serve as a test to see whether the space agency will be able to protect Earth from flying asteroids should the planet face an Armageddon-type scenario, according to Axios.