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NASA’s asteroid impact completely changed the shape of the DART mission target

Scientists have discovered that the target asteroid in NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) may have been reshaped by the impact. A new study of the impact’s aftermath found that the asteroid, the smaller component of the binary asteroid system, exhibited a loose “rubble” composition. DART crashed into the moonlet Dimorphos orbiting the larger space… Read More »