NASA’s DART mission proves it can save the planet from killer asteroids

A close-up of asteroid Dimorphos with a digital chalk outline of where DART crashed into it. | Image: NASA / Johns Hopkins APL

Remember last September when NASA crashed a spaceship into an asteroid to see what would happen? Well, an investigation team led by the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab (APL) released a paper confirming that the successful Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission wasn’t just for fun; it proves that humanity can deflect asteroids an...