… The European Space Agency’s Hera mission, due to launch next month, should help by surveying the aftermath of Dart’s impact on Dimorphos.

Prof Gareth Collins, a planetary scientist at Imperial College, called Moore’s experiments “spectacular”. “I still have a strong preference for non-nuclear options, particularly single or multiple kinetic impactors, as we know they are technologically achievable,” he said. “But for a very large asteroid or a short warning time this type of approach may be our only option.”

I wish these weren’t the last two paragraphs. It would have prevented a lot of internal “yeah but whatabout” while reading.

Edit: Italics are cool but so is bold.