Around 66 million years ago, a six-mile-wide asteroid hit Earth, triggering the extinction of three-quarters of all living ...

China launched a spacecraft that promises to return samples from an asteroid near Mars and yield “groundbreaking discoveries ...

The Supreme Court backed a multibillion-dollar oil railroad expansion in Utah on Thursday, endorsing a limited interpretation ...

When Michael Cera was announced as joining the cast of a Wes Anderson movie for the first time, the prevailing response was: ...

T he ever-iconic Saturday Night Live is about to conclude its landmark 50th season. Created by Lorne Michaels, the late-night sketch comedy show has been airing on NBC since 1975, ...

SALT LAKE CITY (KUTV) — A sample from a primitive asteroid that was parachuted into Utah's West Desert in 2023 revealed the building blocks of life, scientists announced. NASA on Wednesday ...

The formal asteroid naming process is highly selective and began with a nomination for Akella's passion and leadership. Only two other UT professors share the rare honor. "I was attending the ...

An asteroid, then, is “a time capsule,” says ... NASA has repeatedly landed spacecraft at the Utah Test and Training Range, which lies approximately 80 miles outside Salt Lake City.

By Katrina Miller Last fall, a NASA spacecraft named OSIRIS-REx dropped a capsule containing more than 120 grams of space dust into the Utah desert. That material came from Bennu, an asteroid that ...

The robotic probe scraped 4.2 ounces of material from the asteroid and dropped them into Utah by parachute in a sealed container in 2023. The samples are significant because they were obtained in ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — NASA on Wednesday showed off its first asteroid samples delivered to Utah last month by a spacecraft — a jumble of black dust and rubble that's the most ever ...

NASA had a big reveal party on Wednesday. The nation's first-ever asteroid samples, which were delivered last month to a desert in Utah, were shown off at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston.