DART mission

NASA’s DART spacecraft collision may have triggered the first man-made meteor shower

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Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news about fascinating discoveries, scientific developments and more New research has found that rocky debris blown off the small asteroid Dimorphos when NASA’s DART spacecraft deliberately collided with it in 2022 could trigger the first human-made meteor shower, known as the Dimorphids. The … Read more

Asteroid is a ‘completely different body’ after being hit by NASA spacecraft, scientists say

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Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news about fascinating discoveries, scientific developments and more. When NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test spacecraft deliberately collided with the asteroid Dimorphos in September 2022, the impact may have caused “global deformation” of the space rock, according to new research. The purpose of the … Read more