NASA is getting ready to smash an asteroid with an aircraft at 23,000 kilometres per hour to prevent it from colliding with Earth.
The £240million mission is expected to take place in September as new technology is being developed to hurl a half-tonne spacecraft into an asteroid called Dimorphos.
The concept bears similarities to the recent Netflix film Don't Look Up - where scientists tried to warn the public about the imminent danger of an asteroid coming to earth and the US government embarked on launching a spacecraft at it
