Proposals such as NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission involve a spacecraft meeting and altering the trajectory of ... and without space flight," the researchers said in a ...

In the extremely rare event that a space rock's path around the Sun crosses that of Earth so that the two objects intersect at the same time, a collision may occur. The $325m (£240m) Dart mission ...

but to subtly alter its trajectory, showcasing our capability to avert potentially hazardous asteroids in the future. Recent research suggests that DART may have done more than just redirect ...