Why Is NASA Targetting Asteroids Through Its Spacecraft DART?
By Sana Fazili NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) successfully crashed into asteroid Dimorphos on Monday. This is the space agency's first attempt to move an asteroid in space. "After 10 months flying in space, NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) – the world's first planetary defense technology demonstration – successfully impacted its asteroid target on Monday," NASA said. The success of the controlled impact was announced by the Mission control at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Maryland on Monday 7:14 p.m (GMT-4) Here is all you need to know abou...