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The Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spaceship launched from California last November and is fast approaching its target

A NASA spacecraft is about to clobber a small, harmless asteroid millions of miles away. Its an experiment that may, one day, save the world.

Bet the dinosaurs wish they'd thought of this. NASA on Monday will attempt a feat humanity has never before accomplished: deliberately smacking a spacecraft into an asteroid to slightly deflect its orbit, in a key test of our ability to stop cosmic objects from devastating life on Earth. The Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spaceship launched from California last

The Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) was launched last year ahead of an almost year-long journey to crash into the small asteroid Dimorphos, which orbits a larger one called Didymos.

Bet the dinosaurs wish they'd thought of this.

Three eyes in the sky will attempt to watch the DART mission impact asteroid Dimorphos: the James Webb and Hubble space telescopes and another NASA asteroid mission, Lucy.

NASA is about to clobber a small, harmless asteroid millions of miles away. A spacecraft named DART (Double ...

A NASA spacecraft is about to clobber a small, harmless asteroid millions of miles away.

A NASA spacecraft is about to clobber a small, harmless asteroid millions of miles away. The spacecraft named Dart will zero in on the asteroid Monday, intent on slamming it head-on at 14,000 mph.

Asteroid hurtling towards earth. there were lots of those films. it was fine in the end, i think, usually. there is a genuine thought this could happen. next tuesday, there will be a mission. an asteroid has been picked out. it is 6.8 million miles away. it is a long way away and poses no threat to earth. but nasa wants to show it has the ability and technology to deflect an asteroid. what it is doing is it is going to change its orbit around a bigger asteroid. going to change its orbit around a...