Hera, a European spacecraft, is halfway to the Didymos asteroid system to study the impact of NASA’s DART mission.

NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) impacted the 'moonlet' Dimorphos in the Didymos asteroid system. Watch the final moments of the spacecraft's existence and reaction from the team at John ...

NASA’s asteroid impact changed Dimorphos’s orbit, but another strange shift followed. Scientists are still searching for ...

The first flight mission for planetary defense, NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) seeks to validate a method to protect Earth from the threat of an asteroid impact. By smashing a ...

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Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins APL In 2017, NASA approved funding for a project to test a kinetic impactor against Dimorphos, a moonlet that orbited the larger asteroid Didymos. The duo posed little ...

Asteroid 2024 YR4 currently has a 4% chance of smashing into the Moon in about seven years. Astronomers are already working ...

Didymos and Dimorphos Two decades ago, a binary system involving a near-Earth asteroid was found to have a moon orbiting it, dubbed Didymos. In Greek, Didymos means "twin," which was used to describe ...

CHICAGO -- A NASA spacecraft has intentionally slammed into an asteroid in humanity's first test of planetary defense. The impact occurred at 7:15 p.m. ET greeted by cheers from the mission team in ...