Following Nasa’s Dart mission, which successfully fired a spacecraft into the asteroid Dimorphos last month, Chris Lintott talks to Tom about what asteroids can tell us about the history of our planet, how scared we should be of them, and why you should be grateful if one hits your car (so long as you aren’t inside it at the time).
Read Chris Lintott's piece on the Dart mission here.
Music by Kieran Brunt / Produced by Anthony Wilks and Zoe Kilbourn
Image: Nasa/Johns Hopkins APL/Doug Ellison
