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It's the size of a fridge, launched into space on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and currently hurtling towards a 160-metre-wide asteroid. In a few short day, the DART spacecraft will crash into Dimorphos.

On Sept. 26, NASA will ram a spacecraft into an asteroid to test techniques that may eventually be needed to prevent a cataclysmic asteroid strike on Earth.

NASA's DART has deployed a "mini photographer" spacecraft that will record the defense system's planned impact with an asteroid.

Washington: NASA Preparing for a mission to intentionally smash a spacecraft into an asteroid – a test run should humanity ever need to stop a giant s

After for years it ran simulations that proved humanity is nowhere near the technological level that would help us defend against killer asteroids, NASA is finally doing something about it. And that something is called DART.