Space

The OSIRIS-Rex mission has picked up a piece of the asteroid Bennu projected to pass close to Earth. Precautionary? Maybe. But there's a big enough risk that we're doing something about it.

We revisit our conversation with renowned astronomer and science communicator Philip Plait to discuss his new book Under Alien Skies.

This year’s Small Satellite conference kicked off last weekend with talks held at USU's Logan campus. On Sunday, mission operator Michael Hauge gave an update on NASA's Lunar Flashlight mission.

In 1916 Albert Einstein predicted the existence of gravitational waves, but it wasn’t until nearly one hundred years later, in 2015, that the existence of these waves was confirmed. Last month, scientists from around the globe coordinated the publishing of research that shows gravitational waves to be more ubiquitous than previously thought.

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.

We're joined by Andrew Pontzen, professor of cosmology at University College London. In his new book, The Universe in a Box, he explains how physicists model the universe’s most exotic phenomena.

On this episode we're joined by renowned astronomer and science communicator Philip Plait to discuss his new book Under Alien Skies. He also hosts 2 events at Clark Planetarium in Salt Lake City this weekend.

Space Dynamics Laboratory built the deep-set radio now being used to help NASA learn about a type of orbit that allows for good communication with less energy.

The moon will block the view of Mars for about an hour in an event called a "lunar occultation." The event will be visible to the naked eye.

During September, Jupiter will reach opposition on the 26th. It will be closer to the Earth since 1963 and won’t be this close again until 2129.