Last year, NASA deliberately crashed a spacecraft into an asteroid. Now, Hubble has observed that a number of boulders have been ejected from the asteroid.
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The Hubble Space Telescope, operated by NASA and the ESA, spotted boulders swarming around the asteroid Dimorphos. The big rocks were blasted into space by the unprecedented and successful DART mission.