NASA completes successful Double Asteroid Redirection Test mission(1/4)

A television screen at NASA's Kennedy Space Centre in Cape Canaveral, Florida, captures the final images from the Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) just before it smashes into the asteroid Dimorphos, Sept. 26, 2022. (Photo/Agencies)

A NASA spacecraft has intentionally slammed into an asteroid in humanity's first test of planetary defense on Monday.

A television screen at NASA's Kennedy Space Centre in Cape Canaveral, Florida, captures the final images from the Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) just before it smashes into the asteroid Dimorphos, Sept. 26, 2022. (Photo/Agencies)

An illustration of NASA's DART spacecraft on a collision course with the asteroid Dimorphos. (Photo/Agencies)

A television screen at NASA's Kennedy Space Centre in Cape Canaveral, Florida, captures the final images from the Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) just before it smashes into the asteroid Dimorphos, Sept. 26, 2022. (Photo/Agencies)