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Taliban came to power there was a humanitarian crisis in this country. drought, aid cuts in the economic collapse have turned crisis into a catastrophe. yelled hakim, bbc news, kabul. the watching bbc news. it's the stuff of hollywood blockbusters — a mission into space to try to stop an asteroid hitting the earth. but that's what nasa are actually testing this week, with the launch of their dart mission. they're firing a spacecraft at a huge lump of rock in space called dimorphos, to see if they can tip it in another direction. the aim is to develop technology that could stop any dangerous ...

Nasa is targeting a small asteroid called dimorphos, which is orbiting around a larger space rock. the spacecraft travelling at around 13,000 miles an hour will fly into into the small asteroid leaving an impact crater up to 20 metres wide. but this should also give the rock a kick, which will speed up its orbit, and this can be monitored from the earth to see if it has worked. onboard is also a mini satellite that will film the crash. even a small nudge can make a big difference to an asteroid's path, and that could be vital. a 160—metre—wide rock like dimorphos could devastate populous a...

We are going to explore some new world, but in this case we are literally going to crash a spaceship into an asteroid and change the direction and speed at which it moves through space, and we are doing that to basically test the technique to save the planet if there was ever a killer asteroid coming towards earth. nasa is targeting a small asteroid called dimorphos, which is orbiting around a larger space rock. the spacecraft travelling at around 13,000 mph will fly into into the small asteroid leaving an impact crater up to 20 metres wide. but this should also give the rock a kick, which wil...