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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 fridge-sized Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) impactor deliberately smashed into the moonlet asteroid Dimorphos on Septem...
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 its save-the-world test.
The Dart spacecraft carved a crater into the asteroid Dimorphos on September 26.
It took days of telescope observations to determine how much the impact altered the asteroid's path around its companion, a bigger space rock.
It took days of telescope observations to determine how much the impact altered the asteroid's path around its companion, a bigger space rock.