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NASA planetary defense experts warn that up to 15,000 undetected asteroids could devastate a major city on Earth.

NASA's head of planetary defence, Dr Kelly Fast, has issued an unsettling update on thousands of ‘city-killer’ asteroids that could hit Earth.

"We would not have any way to go and actively deflect one right now," warns the scientist who led NASA's DART mission.

While not an official term, "city-killing asteroids" refers to asteroids large enough to significantly damage cities if they were to crash into Earth, the scientists said. Asteroids are rocky, airless ...