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An asteroid that landed in Russia in 2013 injured 1,500 people – and was just 20 metres in diameter. What could we do if a major threat was detected?

Tech billionaire Elon Musk on Thursday said that NASA's asteroid defence mission will avenge the wipeout of dinosaurs from the face of Earth.  NASA on Wednesday launched its Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft, intended to deliberately crash into an asteroid. Read More

Once DART identifies and locks onto Dimorphos, it will kinetically impact the asteroid moonlet at a speed of roughly 24,000 kilometres per hour and shift its orbit.

A NASA spacecraft the size of a golf cart has been directed to smash into an asteroid, with the intention of knocking it slightly off course. The test

NASA has said that it will be crashing a spacecraft into an asteroid and explained why the results are from the test are important.

2018 AH is estimated to be around 190 meters long, similar to the Tunguska asteroid, meaning it would be far more powerful than a nuclear bomb.

The DART spacecraft will deliberately crash into a 530-foot-wide asteroid called Dimorphos in September 2022 at a speed of almost 15,000 miles per hour.

Nasa scientists announce successful lift-off in first stage of bid to prevent catastrophic asteroid collision

"The right time to deflect an asteroid is as far away from the Earth as we can," NASA said. Now, it's putting this to the test.

NASA launches spacecraft to test asteroid defense concept