Asteroid-Smashing NASA Mission Sped Up Space Rocks’ Journey Around the Sun

Asteroid-Smashing NASA Mission Sped Up Space Rocks’ Journey Around the Sun: New data about the DART spacecraft’s effects adds evidence that Earth could be defended from future deadly asteroids by diverting their orbits. By Katrina Miller March 6, 2026 In 2022, NASA deliberately crashed a spacecraft into a small asteroid named Dimorphos. The goal of this interplanetary smashup was to prove that if a killer space rock