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A company spun out of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory began survey flights over the Uinta Mountains this year. Water managers are already using the data to manage Colorado River water wisely.

The sample from the OSIRIS-REx mission could shed light on the history of the solar system and how life came to be. As one NASA scientist put it, “It’s the first time we’ll be able to look for the building blocks of life and trust the results, right, that this is not contamination.”

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx will fly by Earth on Sunday and drop off pebbles and dust collected from the asteroid Bennu to close out a seven-year journey.

The latest challenge to lithium mining in Nevada in the push for cleaner energy comes from a place where no opposition has arisen before: space.

The Mars Society’s annual University Rover Challenge not only pits international collegiate teams against themselves but against the remote badlands of Utah too.

According to NOAA, global temperatures have risen 0.32 degrees Fahrenheit per decade since 1981. Shielding Earth from the sun could slow that.

The deep-space radio was built by Utah State University’s Space Dynamics Laboratory as part of NASA’s return to the moon.

The James Webb Space Telescope released its first images this week, ushering in a new era of astronomy, according to one Utah-based scientist.

The long-awaited James Webb Space Telescope is expected to launch this week. From mining for mirror materials to eagerly awaiting their time to use the tool, here’s how Utahns are taking part in the scientific achievement.

The latest Utah news from Monday evening, March 15, 2021.

NASA is using the Navajo language to name features on the surface of Mars. Aaron Yazzie, a Navajo NASA engineer, said he hopes this helps students take pride in their language.

Today marks a historic event in the cosmos — the first time in 800 years that Saturn and Jupiter will align in the night sky. And for this unique moment in the universe, Utahns may have a better view than most.