It was a plan more akin to a blockbuster movie script — crashing a spacecraft into an asteroid to divert the space rock off course.
Remarkably, though, 's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) actually had a Hollywood ending, as new research confirms the mission was a smashing success.
The US space agency's refrigerator-sized satellite managed to shave 33 minutes off the orbit of a 520ft-wide (160m) asteroid known as Dimorphos when it careered into it at 14,000mph (22,000km/h) in September last year.
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