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If an asteroid was hurtling towards Earth, like the one that wiped out the dinosaurs, could we stop it? That's what NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (or DART) is trying to work out.

A NASA spacecraft is about to clobber a small, harmless asteroid millions of miles away. Here's why and how to watch

The world had a front-row seat Monday evening as NASA successfully crashed a spacecraft into a distant asteroid to see if it can move the rock, a method that will come in handy should a planet-killing asteroid ever come hurtling toward Earth.

The NASA mission will test devices that could stop a future asteroid impact with earth.

It's humanity's first-ever "planetary defense test."

The idea is find out how hard it would be to stop a future asteroid smashing into earth. today�*s demonstration is taking place 7—million miles away, and nasa has given assurances that the asteroid in question is not on a path to hit our planet. here�*s our science editor, rebecca morelle. it�*s the stuff of hollywood — an asteroid threatening to wipe out the earth and a mission to stop it, like in the film, armageddon. but now, nasa is turning science fiction into science fact. they a...

A NASA spacecraft is about to clobber a small, harmless asteroid millions of miles away. Here's why and how to watch

A NASA spacecraft is about to clobber a small, harmless asteroid millions of miles away. Here's why and how to watch

But its a chance to show how we could deal with one on a collision course with the earth. the double asteroid redirection test is, first and foremost, a test. it is a test of an asteroid that is not a danger to earth. there is nothing we can do to it that will make it a danger to earth, and we are doing this now when we dont have to do in order to develop the capabilities to deflect an asteroid if we ever should need to in the future. three, two, one... and lift off, of the falcon 9 and dart. th...

A NASA spacecraft will deliberately slam into an asteroid Monday, and its all in the name of planetary protection.