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In images streamed as the impact neared, the egg-shaped asteroid, called Dimorphos, grew in size from a blip on screen to have its full rocky surface come quickly into focus before the signal went dead as the craft hit, right on target.
A NASA spacecraft has rammed an asteroid in an unprecedented test to see if a potentially menacing space rock could be knocked off course
Scientists from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory will try to figure out if NASA's DART spacecraft did what they needed it to do.
NASA now hopes the collision will change the trajectory of the asteroid, in a first-of-its-kind planetary defence test.
Victory for NASA! The American space agency succeeded during an unprecedented test mission, to deviate the trajectory of an asteroid, opening the real possibility of protecting itself from a threat coming from space. Named Dart, this mission is the first of its kind to test such a technique.