Don’t look up: NASA is about to smash a probe into an asteroid and you can watch

Illustration of DART on course to impact Dimorphos

(Picture: NASA/Johns Hopkins APL)

It sounds like the plot of a Hollywood blockbuster but it’s true. NASA is about to crash a £300,000 probe into an asteroid at 14,000mph tonight (September 26).

You can see all this celestial action play out for yourself via live images sent from the doomed probe back to Earth.