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 have implications for protecting Earth from future asteroid strikes," writes ScienceNews: A spacecraft slowed the orbit of a pair of asteroids around the sun by more than 10 micrometers per sec...