HOUSTON—The target of two joint upcoming NASA/European Space Agency (ESA) planetary defense demonstration missions—the Double Asteroid Re-direction Test (DART) and Hera—has received an official name, Dimorphos. The official designation was made by the International Astronomical Union (IAU). It was...
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