A new study provides insights on the geophysics behind asteroid formation and evolution. When NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft collided with an asteroid moon called Dimorphos ...
When NASA’s DART (Double Asteroid Redirection Test) spacecraft collided with the asteroid moon Dimorphos in September 2022, its impact did more than just alter the asteroid’s orbit. It unleashed a ...
This series of images, taken with the MUSE instrument on ESO’s Very Large Telescope, shows the evolution of the cloud of debris that was ejected when NASA’s DART spacecraft collided with the asteroid ...