September 27, 2022 8:06 AM
NASA’s DART spacecraft successfully crashed into asteroid Dimorphos
<span style="color: #222222;">US space agency - NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft successfully crashed into the asteroid Dimorphos at breakneck speed last night. The target was Dimorphos, a 160-metre-tall asteroid. DART slammed into the harmless asteroid 9.6 million kilometres away at 22,500 kilometres per hour.<br />''<br />''The DART mission intentionally crashed on an asteroid to test a unique defence technology. The crash is aimed at giving...