NASA’s DART mission successfully shoved an asteroid

The orbital change was even bigger than scientists expected

A blue split stream of dust and rock wafting off the asteroid Dimorphos seen after the DART spacecraft mission

This image from the Hubble Space Telescope shows a split stream of dust and rock streaming off the asteroid Dimorphos nearly 12 days after the DART spacecraft smashed into it.

NASA, ESA, STScI, Hubble

It worked! Humanity has, for the first time, purposely moved a celestial object.