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The idea of intentionally smashing a spacecraft into an asteroid may evoke memories of science fiction blockbusters such as Armageddon or Deep Impact. But it became a reality last week, as NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft soared into a small asteroid called Dimorphos at 14,000mph, with the aim of tweaking its orbit. The space agency hopes the technology could one day be used to defend Earth against a'doomsday' asteroid or comet. But could we really avoid a future Armageddon if we detected a huge space rock headed our way? MailOnline's Executive Science and Technology Editor, Shivali Best, investigates.

Google has created a browser'Easter Egg' of a spacecraft crashing into the web browser when a user searches'NASA Dart', to celebrate the success of the planetary defence test. The graphic shows a probe shooting across the DART-related search results, before it collides and disappears in a cloud of dust, leaving the page askew. The demonstration is triggered by the search terms'NASA DART', 'DART', 'DART probe' or'double asteroid redirection test', the full name of the mission. NASA tweeted about the Easter Egg earlier today, telling followers: 'Your Google search could reveal something smashing! Search for "NASA DART" on to see a demonstration of browser, uh, planetary defense.'

In the first-of-its kind, save-the-world experiment, NASA is about to clobber a small, harmless asteroid millions of miles away. A spacecraft named Dart will zero in on the asteroid Monday, intent on slamming it head-on at 14,000 mph (22,500 kph). The impact should be just enough to nudge the asteroid into a slightly tighter orbit around its companion space rock -- demonstrating that if a killer asteroid ever heads our way, we'd stand a fighting chance of diverting it. "This is stuff of science-fiction books and really corny episodes of "StarTrek" from when I was a kid, and now it's real," NASA program scientist Tom Statler said Thursday. Cameras and telescopes will watch the crash, but it will take days or even weeks to find out if it actually changed the orbit.

One day in late September a box-shaped spacecraft weighing approximately half a ton will slam into an asteroid seven million miles away from Earth at a speed of 15,000mph, in a bid to knock it into a new orbit. This suicide mission by a craft the size of a golf cart is not just a self-indulgent experiment dreamed up by NASA scientists with money to burn. The very future of mankind could depend on its success because the $330 million (£269 million) Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART, for short) may well provide the answer to a problem that has preoccupied astronomers for centuries: what to do when an asteroid is on a collision course with our planet. 'This is a mission for planet Earth -- all the peoples of Earth -- because we would all be threatened,' said NASA Administrator Bill Nelson, who added that Dart has'turned science fiction into science fact'. Ever since the 1980s, when scientists first realised that the six-mile-wide Chicxulub crater off Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula had been left by an asteroid whose impact triggered the mass destruction of all non-avian dinosaurs, Hollywood has latched on to the blockbuster potential of such a storyline. Films such as Armageddon, Deep Impact and, most recently, Don't Look Up, have all made millions at the Box Office by playing on our fear of an extinction-level event triggered by a planet-killing asteroid.