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The spacecraft crashed into an asteroid the size of the Washington Monument.

NASA’s DART spacecraft intentionally collided with an asteroid on Monday evening, in an attempt to alter the space rock’s trajectory. The mission tested technology that could help defend Earth against potential future asteroid threats. Photo: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory

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