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The spacecraft at the center of NASA s first asteroid sample return mission has altered its trajectory in preparation for its return to Earth next year.
The discovery is an example of progress in global efforts to characterize potentially hazardous asteroids and shows planetary defense programs at work.
On 26 September, Nasa’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test successfully slammed into an asteroid in the name of planetary defence. Here’s why Nasa is hurling spacecraft at space rocks.