Smashing success: Nasa asteroid strike results in big nudge

View of Didymos, Dimorphos, and the plume coming off of Dimorphos after the Double Asteroid Redirect Test, or DART mission, purposefully made impact, in this image acquired by ASI's LICIACube satellite just before its closest approach to the Dimorphos asteroid, September 26, 2022. – PHOTO: ASI/NASA/Handout via REUTERS

A spacecraft that plowed into a small, harmless asteroid millions of miles away succeeded in shifting its orbit, Nasa said Tuesday in announcing the results of its save-the-world test.

The space agency attempted the test two weeks ago to see if in the future a killer rock could be nudged out of Earth’s way.