Earth's First Asteroid Defense Test Yields Bonus Discoveries for Astronomers

NASA's DART mission successfully changed the course of a small asteroid, but it also shed some light on the makeup and evolution of the early Solar System.When NASA crashed its DART spacecraft into the asteroid Dimorphos (a small asteroid orbiting a larger one called Didymos), the agency proved that it's possible to knock an incoming asteroid off its course.

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