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A First for Humanity Confirmed: NASA's DART Mission Slowed the Asteroid's Orbit


NASA heralded a new study published Friday documenting a first for humanity — "the first time a human-made object has measurably altered the path of a celestial body around the Sun." It was 2022's DART mission where NASA crashed a spacecraft into an asteroid — and the experiment "could...

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