NASA Fired A Spacecraft Into An Asteroid And Redirected It — Now What?

The Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) shows that we could one day save Earth from an otherwise life-threatening rock hurtling towards the planet.

Austin Harvey

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The launch of NASA’s DART spacecraft, en route to collide with an asteroid 6.8 million miles away.
NASA

On Monday evening, a specially-engineered NASA spacecraft traveling at 14,000 miles per hour…

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Austin Harvey

Writer, editor, and podcast host. Currently a staff writer at All That's Interesting. Host of History Uncovered and Conspiracy Realists.