NASA

The Trump administration is proposing a nearly 25% cut to NASA’s budget as well as deep cuts to space technology funding. We talk about it with Casey Dreier and Christopher Cokinos.

On the night of May 3, a green fireball illuminated the skies over Cache Valley. Jason Trump, a NASA solar system ambassador, says it's no cause for concern.

In this episode, USU President Elizabeth Cantwell talks to Dr. Jed Hancock, President of the Space Dynamics Laboratory about advancing research and education in the field of space exploration.

Nearly 15 years after its assembly in Logan, this NASA spacecraft’s mission has exceeded all hopes.

The historical fiction parts of this film are fun, being written and acted with a likable, energetic charm set against the high stakes space race between the United States and the Soviet Union. The romantic comedy parts of this film are what left me feeling underwhelmed.

Dr. Dante Lauretta is a planetary scientist at the University of Arizona, the principal investigator of the OSIRIS REX mission, and author of the new book "The Asteroid Hunter: A Scientist’s Journey to the Dawn of our Solar System."

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.

Today we’ll talk with Christopher Cokinos about his book Still As Bright: An Illuminating History of the Moon from Antiquity to Tomorrow.

In other news: Mary Cleave, a retired NASA astronaut and Utah State University alumni, died on Nov. 27. She was 76 years old.

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.