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NASA’s Mars Sample Return program is the agency’s highest priority in planetary science, but projected multibillion-dollar overruns have some calling the plan a “dumpster fire”

A strong band of snow is expected to blow into northern Utah on Tuesday afternoon as a winter storm system descends on the Beehive State, potentially creating dangerous conditions during the evening commute.

This year was a very busy one in the final frontier. Heres a rundown of some highlights, from Starships debut to NASAs first asteroid sample-return.

The U.S. military is all in on helping to preserve landscapes and the lake with the designation of the Great Salt Lake Sentinel Basin

After a 500 million mile journey, a piece of the asteroid Bennu is now on display at the Smithsonian. But how did it get here?

OSIRIS-REx, American spacecraft that orbited the asteroid Bennu and returned a sample of it to Earth. The roughly 250-gram (9-ounce) sample was the largest extraterrestrial sample returned to Earth since the Apollo missions to the Moon and the first asteroid sample collected by an American

Experimental rockets, Moon landers, planetary flybys, breathtaking spacewalks, and vintage boosters—these are just a few of the many stories that contributed to the most striking and memorable images of 2023.

Earthlings expanded their collective reach into, and knowledge of, the cosmos in 2023, launching mega rockets, traveling billions of miles to bring asteroid samples back to earth and more.

Utah played a key role in one of the biggest space stories of 2023, but it was a year of grand accomplishments and spectacular visuals.

Utah played a key role in one of the biggest space stories of 2023, but it was a year of grand accomplishments and spectacular visuals.