On 26 September, Nasa’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test successfully slammed into an asteroid in the name of planetary defence. Here’s why Nasa is hurling spacecraft at space rocks.
The Italian Space Agency's LICIACube spacecraft has captured the first images of the collision that aims to give Earth a new planetary defence technology.
NASA s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART), the world s first mission to test technology for defending Earth against potential asteroid or comet hazards, will impact its target asteroid on Monday, according to the agency.