Cataclysmic asteroid impacts have happened in the past and chances are they will happen again in

much larger asteroid called Didymos.... ScienceNASA catches asteroid fever with new missions to

Applied Physics Laboratory, which is managing the project. Dimorphos orbits a much larger asteroid

A Nasa mission to deliberately smash a spacecraft into an asteroid — a test run should humanity

Some of that may be in jeopardy as the Taliban is subject to a bevy of sanctions from the U.S., European Union and the United Nations. Without that money — Kabul received$ 4.2 billion in development assistance in 2019 — the government is all but bankrupt.... The Taliban is facing enormous pressure to show Afghans and the world that, beyond upholding the tenets of Islam, it can pay civil servants, buy fuel, pick up garbage, run hospitals and develop a country more modernized and transformed from

then the idea is to look at the consequences of a well-calibrated impact to see how the asteroid

enormous speed, anything in its path would be destroyed due to the impact. The asteroid, called

Officially known as the Double Asteroid Redirection Test, or DART, the mission aims to test NASA's

The chances of an asteroid striking Earth within the next decade has doubled in a matter of weeks

Earth.... But all of that changed when a six-mile wide( 10km) asteroid came crashing just off the coast