Smashing Success: NASA Asteroid Strike Results in Big Nudge
The agency was testing to see if in the future a killer rock could be nudged out of Earth’s way.
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The agency was testing to see if in the future a killer rock could be nudged out of Earth’s way.
NASA on Tuesday celebrated exceeding expectations during a mission to deflect a distant asteroid, in a sci-fi like test of humanity's ability to stop an incoming cosmic object from devastating life on Earth.
The spacecraft that 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.
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — A spacecraft that plowed into a small, harmless asteroid millions of miles away succeeded in shifting its orbit, NASA said Tuesday in announcing the results of