DART Impact Reveals Didymos, Dimorphos

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Double Asteroid Redirection Test

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NASA's DART asteroid impact mission revealed ages of twin space rock targets (images)

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NASA 's DART asteroid impact mission has collected data from its asteroid targets Didymos and Dimorphos .

The data could help scientists better plan a planetary defense mission to divert an asteroid on a collision course with Earth .

The research could help better understand the formation and evolution of binary asteroids such as these.

Robert Lea is a science journalist in the U.K. whose articles have been published in Physics World , New Scientist , Astronomy Magazine , All About Space, Newsweek and ZME Science . He also writes about science communication for Elsevier and the European Journal of Physics . Rob holds a bachelor of science degree in physics and astronomy from the U.K.’s Open University . Follow him on Twitter @sciencef1rst..