this post was submitted on 10 Sep 2023
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They are still watching it. https://phys.org/news/2023-09-dart-impact.html gives much better details on this situation including:
They quite likely already know of this and just have not reported any findings yet, likely as they want to collect more data first and have another launch planned to study this further:
Just so happens these students published their work first. That does not mean the team behind DART are not monitoring it any more and have nothing further to report or have moved on to other work. Even if that is what the OP article seems be be hinting at.