Dimorphos, the Asteroid Hit by NASA’s DART Mission is Behaving Erratically—Is It Good or Bad?

The asteroid that NASA's DART mission successfully hit last year, Dimorphos, has been discovered by researchers to be behaving erratically in space, with the team noticing a change in its orbit. The main goal of the Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) was to determine if hitting asteroids with a spacecraft would change its course to avoid the planet and deal grave damage.

It also looked into developing a new method of diverting asteroids from their collision course towards the Earth, thereby having a new frontline to protect the home planet.

Dimorphos, the Asteroid which NASA's DART Hit is Behaving Erratically