In 2022, NASA made history, deliberately smashing a spacecraft into an asteroid to see if it could alter the object's orbit around its larger companion asteroid . We already knew that the Double Asteroid Redirection Test ( DART ) mission was wildly successful , reducing the orbital period of the asteroid pair Didymos and Dimorphos by an astonishing 33 minutes. But new measurements have revealed something even bigger: The impact also changed the entire orbital path of the Didymos-Dimorphos