When NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft collided with an asteroid moon called Dimorphos in 2022, the moon was significantly deformed—creating a large crater and reshaping ...

DART's goal was to shorten an asteroid's orbit by at least 73 seconds, although scientists hoped the effect would be more like 10 minutes. But the first calculations are in, and DART blew those ...

Before Hera's arrival, there is still much work to be done. On Sept. 11, two weeks before the impact, DART deployed an Italian-led cubesat called the Light Italian Cubesat for Imaging of Asteroids ().

NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) impacted the 'moonlet' Dimorphos in the Didymos asteroid system. The Les Makes ...

Astronomers have used ground-based telescopes to monitor the impact’s aftermath for nearly two years, and they determined that the DART spacecraft did successfully change the way Dimorphos moves ...

The DART impact was successful, changing Dimorphos’ orbital period around Didymos by 33 minutes, according to one of five new studies published Wednesday in the journal Nature that describe the ...

DART asteroid impact created a 10,000-kilometer debris field of boulders The asteroid-smashing planetary defense mission knocked some large rocks free. John Timmer – Jul 20, 2023 5:37 pm | 59 ...

The 31-pound (14-kilogram) LICIACube (pronounced LEE-cha-cube) was trailing behind DART at the time of impact, having been dispatched by the NASA spacecraft two weeks ago.

Scientists have analyzed images of the twin asteroids Didymos and Dimorphous taken by NASA's DART mission before it impacted the smaller space rock, revealing their age and origins.

Slower moving particles blasted out by the DART impact on the asteroid Dimorphos could create meteor showers on Mars — but it's unlikely they'll cause meteor showers over Earth.

Astronomers have used ground-based telescopes to monitor the impact’s aftermath for nearly two years, and they determined that the DART spacecraft did successfully change the way Dimorphos moves ...