"NASA Satellite's Asteroid Collision Launches Spacebound Boulders"

NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) successfully altered the course of an asteroid by colliding a satellite with it, resulting in dozens of boulders being sent into space. Images captured by the Hubble telescope show a swarm of boulders floating away from the impact site. The technique could potentially be used to deflect asteroids on a collision course with Earth, although the boulders produced in this test pose no threat as they are currently moving at a slow speed.