view of Didymos-Dimorphos system minutes after hit shows larger intact asteroid and debris coming from smaller asteroid that was hit

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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

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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.

Impact simulation frame

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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."

Close-up view of Didymos and Dimorphos

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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.

Trailing plume ejected from bright Dimorphos

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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.

nearby view of ejecta streaming out from asteroid

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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.