A spacecraft that ploughed into a small, harmless asteroid millions of kilometres away succeeded in shifting its orbit, Nasa said on Tuesday in announcing the results of its save-the-world test.The space agency attempted the first...
Full ArticleNasa's Dart mission successfully changes asteroid's orbit
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