# Humanity Officially Has a Viable Defense Against Killer Asteroids, NASA Confirms

- Link: https://www.widthness.com/humanity-officially-has-a-viable-defense-against-killer-asteroids-nasa-confirms/
- Published: 2023-03-05T09:30:00-06:00
- Author: Curated by John Wysocki

Image credit: dore art. Article by Becky Ferreira. Vice – March 1, 2023. A slew of new studies analyzing NASA’s mission to punch an asteroid off-course have confirmed that humanity now has a viable tool to defend our home planet against a devastating impact. On September 26, 2022, humanity altered the course of a celestial object for the first time in history by deliberately crashing a spacecraft into a small “moonlet” asteroid that orbits a larger space rock. […] Click here to view original web page at www.vice.com