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Asteroids colliding with the Earth has been a plot element in many movies, but NASA's new experiment is set to test out a practical solution to the real th

The DART mission has been flying to its target since launching last year. On Monday night, it will connect.

On Sept. 26 at 7:14 p.m. EDT (2314 GMT), NASA will intentionally crash a spacecraft into an asteroid. The Virtual Telescope Project will stream a ground-based view of the monumental event.

The Double Asteroid Redirection Test will knock an asteroid out of orbit, effectively sacrificing itself.

DART will crash into Dimorphos, a small asteroid orbiting the near-Earth asteroid Didymos, to test NASA's ability to deflect space rocks from Earth.

NASA will use its DART spacecraft to impact the faraway asteroid Dimorphos on Monday. The moonlet is nearly 7 million miles away from Earth and orbits Didymos.

NASA's DART spacecraft is set to collide with its target asteroid on Monday and here's how people can watch the historic moment!

The DART spacecraft is now close enough to image the asteroid system it plans to slam into as part of NASA’s planetary defense efforts.

On Monday, in what seems like a scene out of a science fiction movie, NASA will slam a spacecraft into a distant asteroid to see whether it can nudge its orbit — all in an effort to test a way to protect Earth from any potential future threats.

After NASA deliberately smashes a car-sized spacecraft into an asteroid next week, it will be up to the European Space Agency's Hera mission to investigate the "crime scene" and uncover the secrets of…