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DART will hit Dimorphos at four miles per second just 11km above the Indian Ocean

The mission is designed to see how easy it would be to stop a sizeable rock from hitting Earth.

NASA's DART spacecraft successfully slammed into a distant asteroid at hypersonic speed on Monday in the world's first test of a planetary defense system, designed to prevent a potential doomsday meteorite collision with Earth.

NASA successfully crashed a spacecraft into an asteroid in a test of planetary defense. Now it will determine whether the mission was able to alter the asteroid's course.

The historic crash will test our abilities to divert dangerous objects from hitting Earth.

The tiny island came into existence 11 hours after a volcanic eruption and grew to 24,000 square metres in size.

The test is set for Monday evening.

The collision will help scientists to prepare for an asteroid that might pose a threat to Earth

It will be another 107 years before Jupiter comes this close to Earth

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Jupiter was already going to appear bigger and brighter thanks to a phenomenon that happens every 13 months, but NASA says the view will be "extraordinary" this time because it coincides with another celestial event.