NASA and this space agency will meet in Rome to discuss their plan for planetary defence against asteroids.

NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA) will meet in Rome to discuss their plan for planetary defence against asteroids. The two-part mission dubbed Asteroid Impact Deflection Assessment plans to collide with Asteroid Didymoon- the smaller of the Didymo's binary system. NASA is in charge of conducting the actual impact while ESA will analye the aftermath.