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American Space Agency NASA has built a spacecraft which will intentionally crash into a small asteroid named Dimorphos.

This is the first attempt ever made to change an asteroids trajectory.

Brace yourselves for a dramatic impact as NASA will attempt to smash an asteroid on Sept. 27! NASA will finally go toe-to-toe with an asteroid next week to test its planetary defense system! On Sept.

The space industry's focus on security has grown significantly. (Photo : Photo: Screenshot from NASA's Dart Mission) NASA’s DART mission will attempt to collide with an asteroid in order to move it from its current path.

A NASA spacecraft that will crash into an asteroid this month to test our planetary defences has snapped its first photo of its target.The groundbreak

Using its DRACO camera, DART has imaged the asteroid Didymos and its moonlet Dimorphos.

NASAs DART spacecraft just beamed back the first image of its target, the moonlet Dimorphos, as well as the body it orbits, the asteroid Didymos. DART is a planetary defense test mission designed to

In one month, NASAs DART mission will impact the asteroid Dimorphos in an attempt to alter the celestial bodys trajectory. The mission is the worlds first planetary defense test — the mission is

You heard that right. NASA's DART will square off with an asteroid and aims to deflect it next month!

NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft has been steadily moving toward its September 26 encounter with the double asteroid Didymos