A sale of illegal drugs is made on the streets. In Oregon, 28 of the state's 36 counties are planning programs to reach people who commit low-level drug possession. (Getty Images) Editor’s note: The ...

Planetary scientists have published a detailed follow-up on the debris from their historic 2022 asteroid impact experiment in outer space. What they found challenges their understanding of the ...

If a space probe crashes into an asteroid and there's no one there to see it, did it leave a crater? ESA wants to avoid such questions by sending its unmanned Hera orbiter to the Didymos binary ...

What do you do if you discover a big rock on a collision course with Earth and have very little time to take action? When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.

The Nasa probe that struck an asteroid in September to try to deflect its path had a bigger effect because of all the debris it kicked out. The Dart mission slammed into egg-shaped Dimorphos to ...

Scientists continue to pore over the results of NASA’s stunningly successful DART test to deflect a harmless asteroid. As the latest findings suggest, the recoil created by the blast of debris spewing ...

Proposed for the deflection and mitigation of asteroids, laser ablation is caused by illuminating the surface of the asteroid with a laser light source. The laser beam heats the surface material, ...

Oregon is in the midst of a new experiment with a group of nearly 220 Oregonians who’ve been caught with drugs. Six months ago, they would have faced a $100 citation, something most ignored. But with ...