Asteroid Didymos's Heliocentric Orbit Altered by Impact on its Moon
Dozens on amateur astronomers helped measure the minuscule difference in Didymos’s trajectory around the Sun, after NASA’s DART mission impacted its moon.
Hera Mission Launches to Witness Asteroid-Crash Aftermath
The European Agency’s Hera mission has launched, following up on the destructive impact of NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test on the asteroid Didymos.
NASA's DART Impact Reshaped the Asteroid Dimorphos
Models of the NASA's DART impact reshaping the asteroid moon Dimorphos show that this object is "rubble all the way down."
The Aftermath of DART, Humankind’s First Planetary Defense Mission
Five new studies give a full accounting of the aftermath of the impact of NASA's DART mission on a nearby asteroid.
How Citizen Scientists Are Monitoring the DART Impact's Aftereffects
Observers around the globe are keeping an eye on the asteroid Didymos and its moon Dimorphos to track the long-term effects of the DART mission's impact.
DART Asteroid Redirect Test Wildly Successful
They needed to shorten the moon’s orbit by 73 seconds. They shortened it by more than half an hour.
