Didymos articles
Deeper dives into Didymos, sourced from NASA, JPL and the scientific literature.
DART: the day humanity moved an asteroid
How a 610 kg spacecraft hit Dimorphos at 6 km/s, shortened its orbit by 33 minutes and proved kinetic-impact deflection works.
Read →Hera's arrival: Europe's planetary-defense detective reaches Didymos
From a Falcon 9 launch and a Mars flyby to October 2026 braking burns — what Hera and its two CubeSats will do now.
Read →How Didymos got a moon
Fast spin, a ring of debris and a rubble-pile moonlet: the leading theory of how binary asteroids like Didymos form.
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