This asteroid, which measures between 65 to 147 feet in diameter, will zoom past our planet at a distance of 18 lakh kilometres. Moving at a brisk pace of 22,400 kilometres per hour, its closest ...

Definitely, I will.” Dimorphos is an asteroid moonlet orbiting a much larger asteroid named Didymos. This is why the mission’s name is “Double Asteroid Redirection Test”. Nasa picked ...

Dimorphos was the chosen target – a small asteroid in a mutual orbit with a larger binary companion called Didymos.

ESA's Hera spacecraft as it would look in space. Dimorphos is a small moonlet that orbits the bigger asteroid Didymos. In 2022, NASA rammed a spacecraft into Dimorphos to see if it could change ...

NASA’s Lucy mission will continue its journey to explore the Jupiter Trojan asteroids, which share Jupiter’s orbit around the ...

is a binary asteroid known as Didymos. Didymos consists of a large body some 800 meters in diameter and a secondary “moonlet” that measures just 150 meters across. When the spacecraft launches ...

such as DART (Double Asteroid Redirection Test), a recently launched NASA mission. DART aims to make a spacecraft deliberately crash into one of a pair of asteroids — called Didymos and ...

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 ...

DRACO is short for Didymos Reconnaissance and Asteroid Camera for Optical navigation. The camera was primarily built to capture high-resolution photos of DART’s journey towards Didymos.

The first flight mission for planetary defense, NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) seeks to validate a method to ...