DART impact illus.
DART collided with Dimorphos, a moon orbiting the asteroid Didymos, as planned Sept. 26.

A NASA spacecraft collided with a moon orbiting a near Earth asteroid Sept. 26 in a demonstration of a technology that could one day be used to protect the Earth from a hazardous object.

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