


What could we do if we spotted a dangerous asteroid on a collision course with our planet? NASA has an idea that it’s testing out, though it might sound like a Hollywood plot. The DART mission will deliberately fly a small spacecraft into an asteroid to see whether its path can be deflected. The idea is to test whether this

A stern warning from Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell that taming inflation “requires using our tools forcefully” even if that brings “some pain to households and businesses” sent stock prices tumbling Friday, but had surprisingly little impact on long-term interest rates.
Powell’s remarks at the annual Jackson Hole central banking conference in Wyoming raised the odds that the Fed will

Gov. Kristi Noem (Getty)
A state ethics board found enough evidence to take “appropriate action” against the South Dakota governor who intervened in her daughter’s application to become a real estate appraiser.
Three retired judges that comprise South Dakota’s Government Accountability Board found that Gov. Kristi Noem may have “engaged in misconduct” when her daughter, Kassidy Peters, was granted a

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Even though we’re learning more about Mars than ever before thanks to rovers, orbiters, and landers visiting the planet, there’s still a whole lot we have to learn about how Mars formed, its history, and what it’s made up of now. The Perseverance rover has been exploring Mars’ Jezero crater since it landed there in 2021, and now scientists have