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The spacecraft NASA deliberately crashed into an asteroid last month succeeded in nudging the rocky moonlet from its natural path into a faster orbit, marking the first time humanity has altered the motion of a celestial body, the U.S. space agency announced on Tuesday.
Officials provide an analysis of the planetary defense mission that launched from Vandenberg Space Force Base in November
Scientists have now confirmed the orbit of a 160m-wide (520ft) space rock known as Dimorphos was altered when the Dart probe struck it head on last month.
And this means that if necessary, we can protect the Earth from asteroid collisions...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- A spacecraft that plowed into a small, harmless asteroid millions of miles away succeeded in shifting its orbit, NASA stated Tuesday in announcing the results of its save-the-world test.