NASA's DART spacecraft changed a binary asteroid's orbit around the sun, in a first for a human-made object

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By Cheyenne MacDonaldMar 7, 2026, 4:05 pm128 ptsTrending
When NASA crashed a spacecraft into the asteroid moonlet Dimorphos in 2022, it altered both Dimorphos' orbit around its parent asteroid, Didymos, and the two objects' orbit around the sun, according to new research. NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) said in a press release that this "marks the first time a…

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