NASA defense test changed asteroid's orbit around the sun: Study

2026-03-07 - 10:13

A placard hangs on the wall during the Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) Technology Media Workshop Telecon Briefing and tour at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Maryland, the United States on Sept. 12, 2022, ahead of the Sept. 26 project test mission. The DART mission aims to shift an asteroid's orbit through kinetic impact, specifically by smashing a spacecraft into the smaller member of the binary asteroid system Didymos.