A celestial collision is set to happen Monday, when a NASA spacecraft carries out its test mission to nudge an asteroid hurtling through space. Talk about an out-of-this-world event!
Heads up! A celestial collision is set to happen Monday, when a NASA spacecraft carries out its test mission to nudge an asteroid hurtling through space.
"NASA is not aware of any threatening asteroids to date, but we keep on looking, and the key is finding them before they find us," said Marina Brozovic, a physicist and asteroid specialist at JPL.Support for LAist comes from"This is the very first demonstration of this planetary defense technology because we need to start doing it," Brozovic said.DART is scheduled to impact its target asteroid, Dimorphos, at 4:14 p.m. on Sept. 26.