Stay updated with breaking news from Tom Statler. Get real-time updates on events, politics, business, and more. Visit us for reliable news and exclusive interviews.
“This mission shows that NASA is trying to be ready for whatever the universe throws at us,” NASA Administrator Bill Nelson said during a briefing at the space agency's headquarters in Washington.
It took days of telescope observations to determine how much the impact altered the asteroid's path around its companion, a bigger space rock.
NASA says a spacecraft that plowed into a small, harmless asteroid millions of miles away last month succeeded in shifting its orbit.
WASHINGTON, United States- 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. 000_32L83ZQThis handout picture obtained by the Italian Space Ag
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.