JUST IN: NASA has successfully slammed its DART spacecraft into an asteroid in a historic test of planetary defense.
NASA has successfully and intentionally crashed its Double Asteroid Redirection Test spacecraft into an asteroid.
NASA says the binary asteroid system called Didymos, is made up"of a larger asteroid named Didymos and a smaller asteroid that orbits around it called Dimorphos."
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