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ESA’s Hera mission is two-year flight to the Didymos binary asteroid system. See its trajectory here. Credit: ESA - European ...

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New research on the orbits of these mysterious asteroids near Venus stress the need for better space rock surveillance.

On 20 April 2025, NASA's Lucy spacecraft will fly past asteroid (52246) Donaldjohanson, which measures nearly four kilometres in diameter, at a distance of 960 kilometres. This serves as a dress ...

NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft prior to impact at the Didymos binary asteroid system shown in this undated illustration handout.

Two European cubesats have communicated that they are a-ok as they hurtle toward a binary asteroid system to check out the damage inflicted by NASA's DART impactor in 2022.

Neither asteroid poses a risk to Earth, so NASA chose them as the objective for DART. The Hubble Space Telescope spotted a debris field trailing the binary asteroid system after DART's impact.

DART slammed into Dimorphos at more than 14,000 miles per hour, its camera transmitting a final, partial image of the asteroid’s cobbled surface just before the impact. The strike sent a dusty ...

Yes, just like larger planets, asteroids can have moons, too! The fact that asteroids can have satellites at all came as something of a surprise. The first such “binary asteroid” was ...

But this discovery shows that there are many asteroid moons out there just waiting to be found." These 352 newly discovered binary asteroids nearly double the known tally of pairs like this in our ...

The new data about binary asteroids comes from the European Space Agency’s Gaia mission, a space-based telescope that has spotted new potential moons around 350 asteroids.