Didymos is a binary asteroid system: a pair of harmless, lumpy rocks minding their own business. Individually the two rocks are known as Didymos and Dimorphos. NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test ...

How do you pick one asteroid out of thousands for a space mission? NASA made that tough choice with its Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART), which aims to slam a spacecraft into the moonlet ...

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

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. In the wake of NASA slamming a spacecraft into an asteroid, scientists ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. NASA's planetary defense mission has launched from Space Launch Complex ...

In 2022, a NASA spacecraft intentionally barreled into the tiny asteroid Dimorphos during a planetary defense test. The objective was to assess whether humanity could protect Earth from cosmic threats ...

Seven million miles from Earth, a NASA spacecraft crashed head on into a tiny asteroid Monday at a mind-boggling 14,000 mph, the first real-world test of humanity's ability to nudge a threatening body ...

New research reveals that NASA's DART mission has altered the orbit of the asteroid Dimorphos and its larger comrade, Didymos, around the Sun through the spacecraft's planned crash into the former in ...

Didymos (left) and Dimorphos (right) as seen by the DART mission minutes before impact. Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins APL Asteroid Didymos is spitting rocks out into space. Last fall, when NASA's DART ...