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NASA is testing ways to prevent a planet-killing asteroid from crashing into Earth.

On Tuesday night, NASA is launching its first planetary defense test mission, known as the Double Asteroid Redirection Test, or DART.

WASHINGTON -- NASA is preparing to launch a mission to deliberately smash a spacecraft into an asteroid -- a test run should humanity ever need to stop a giant space rock from wiping out life on Earth. AFP/ MANILA BULLETIN It may sound like the stuff of science fiction, but the DART (Double Ast

An early morning liftoff kicks off DART, NASA’s first mission to test a spacecraft that could one day save Earth from a deadly space rock.

NASA is testing ways to prevent a planet-killing asteroid from crashing into Earth.

The asteroid impact mission will launch no earlier than 10:20 p.m. PST on Tuesday, Nov. 23 (1:20 a.m. EST, or 0620 GMT on Nov. 24).

NASA is testing ways to prevent a planet-killing asteroid from crashing into Earth.

The first-of-its-kind mission will head to the asteroid Dimorphos in the Didymos system and test kinetic impactors to see if an asteroid’s trajectory can be altered.

NASA is testing ways to prevent a planet-killing asteroid from crashing into Earth.

NASA is preparing to launch a mission to deliberately smash a spacecraft into an asteroid -- a test run should humanity ever need to stop a giant space rock from wiping out life on Earth.