NASA’s DART mission successfully shoved an asteroid
The orbital change was even bigger than scientists expected
![A blue split stream of dust and rock wafting off the asteroid Dimorphos seen after the DART spacecraft mission](https://i0.wp.com/www.sciencenews.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/101122_LG_DART_feat.jpg?fit=1030%2C580&ssl=1)
This image from the Hubble Space Telescope shows a split stream of dust and rock streaming off the asteroid Dimorphos nearly 12 days after the DART spacecraft smashed into it.
NASA, ESA, STScI, Hubble