NASA's new DART spacecraft could save us from dangerous asteroids
The asteroid that DART is aiming for poses no actual threat and is tiny compared with the cataclysmic Chicxulub asteroid that struck Earth some 66 million years ago. Image: Unsplash/ Chris Henry
Steve Gorman
Reporter, Reuters
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