Animation Shows NASA’s Plan to Smash a Spacecraft Into an Asteroid to Deflect It

At the end of April, a bunch of scientists came together to see how prepared humanity is to stop an asteroid from impacting our planet. The bottom line is that if we were to discover an asteroid heading our way six months in advance, we would probably not be able to do anything to stop it. And it was not for the lack of trying. The American space agency tried everything from deflection to disruption during the