The European Space Agency just launched the Hera follow-up mission to see what’s shaking with the binary asteroid system. Hera has a long journey ahead, but it took a moment to look back and ...

It will rendezvous with the binary asteroid in early 2027. We need to measure the mass of Dimorphos to measure the efficiency of the DART impact to make sure the deflection test can be ...

Dimorphos is a small moon 160m-wide that orbits an asteroid close to Earth called Didymos in something called a binary asteroid system. In 2022 Nasa said it successfully changed Dimorphos’s ...

By smashing a spacecraft into the smaller member of the binary asteroid system Didymos, DART aims to shift an asteroid's orbit through kinetic impact. Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins APL Carrie ...

But this discovery shows that there are many asteroid moons out there just waiting to be found." If confirmed, this new ...

The DART mission marked a significant milestone in planetary defense by successfully impacting the asteroid Dimorphos, which is part of the binary system (65803) Didymos. This mission aimed to ...

Though this binary asteroid system is of no threat to our planet — either before or after it gets walloped by a careening hunk of metal — the DART mission will test a method we could use to ...

This mission aimed to test the feasibility of deflecting an asteroid by impacting it with a spacecraft. The target was Dimorphos, a moonlet of the binary asteroid system Didymos. The DART ...

Hera is part of the Asteroid Impact and Deflection Assessment mission, which plans to study the Didymos binary asteroid system. The mission will provide valuable data on asteroid deflection ...