Bennu

In The Asteroid Hunter, Dante Lauretta chronicles the quest to retrieve a sample from Bennu, which is one of the large asteroids that is most likely to collide with the Earth.

A first look at the historic asteroid sample that was delivered to Utah’s West desert on September 24 indicate Bennu contains the building blocks of life.

Research funding for the University of Utah reached a record $768 million in the 2023 fiscal year. This marks a decade of year-over-year increases.

A spacecraft carrying rock and dust from the asteroid Bennu is cruising back to earth and is expected to drop off the precious cargo at Utah’s Dugway Proving Ground in two months.

Thursday, October 22, NASA received inmages confirming a spacecraft the size of a school bus grabbed a sample from an asteroid over 200 million miles from…

NASA launched a rocket Thursday night carrying cameras built by scientists at Utah State University’s Space Dynamics Laboratory. SDL employees and their…