NASA's mission to collide with asteroid sent 'swarm of boulders' into space
NASA's DART mission to successfully collide with an asteroid last year sent a "swarm of boulders" into space, according to the federal agency. A " swarm of boulders " was sent careening into space after NASA successfully disrupted the orbit of an asteroid last year, according to the space agency. The Double Asteroid Redirection Test spacecraft, or DART, collided with Dimorphos, a small asteroid that is the moon of a bigger space rock, Didymos, at about 14,000 miles per hour. Not only did the test successfully change the trajectory of the orbit but about 37 boulders were shaken off the asteroid in images capture by the Hubble telescope, NASA said. MORE: NASA spacecraft successfully collides with asteroid The boulders range in size from three feet to 22 feet across and are drifting away from the asteroid at about half a mile per hour. David Jewett, a planetary scientist at the University of California, Los Angeles, who has been tracking changes after the DAR...