The DART mission exceeded its minimum target 25 times and demonstrated that a planned impact can modify the trajectory of a celestial body.
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In 2022, a NASA ship was pounding at full speed towards a small distant asteroid, with a goal as unlikely as it is ambitious: to hit it voluntarily to modify its race. The DART mission succeeded in its bet and demonstrated, for the first time in history, that humanity could divert a celestial stone. But an impact [...] More