#nasaasteroidcollision

A multimillion-dollar spacecraft will collide head-on with an asteroid the size of a football stadium in an unprecedented full-scale planetary defense test by the US space agency, Nasa, on Monday evening

In a historical moment, NASA successfully led the world’s first mission in planetary defence, inviting the public to watch as one of its spacecraft attempts to deflect an asteroid — by deliberately crashing into it. The DART spacecraft, short for Doub