Clubs and student-run organizations are more than just extracurricular activities. From networking to fieldwork, they can enable student growth in ways that Weber State’s 225 certificate and degree programs...
This fall semester is the inaugural semester of the brand-new Miller Advanced Research and Solutions Center, or MARS. The center cut the ribbon this summer and was funded in large part by a donation from...
The Mars 2020 Perseverance rover, the most technologically advanced rover spacecraft, landed on Mars on Feb. 18.It launched from Cape Canaveral on July 30, traveled 293 million miles and landed in the...
The evening of Oct. 16, a sold-out Eccles Theatre in Salt Lake City hosted renowned astrophysicist and Hayden Planetarium director Neil deGrasse Tyson. The recipient of twenty honorary doctorates and protege...
Elon Musk, billionaire, scientist and CEO of SpaceX intends to send two crewed crafts to the planet Mars to create a self-sustaining civilization by 2022.
“The launch cost, you may spend 400 million...
Gone are the days when the only face of space exploration was NASA. A new actor has stepped onto cosmic stage: SpaceX.SpaceX Founder Elon Musk has been vocal about the private company’s ambitions....
Astrobiologist David Grinspoon wrote a book looking at the past 10,000 years and other Earth-like planets, such as Venus and Mars, to discuss climate change on Earth. Now, he's giving a lecture about it....
If Elon Musk is to be believed, humans will be living on another planet within the next decade. According to Musk, “We will stay on Earth forever, and eventually there will be an extinction event....
Daniel R. Adamo shared his experiences at NASA with a group of physics students and science junkies on Feb. 22 about humanity's next destination, Mars.The Red Planet has been one of the most enticing...
“Space: the final frontier." For the past fifty years, the Star Trek motto has hinged on the idea that humanity could continue beyond Earth and inhabit other planets.
Adding to that sentiment,...
In October 1957 the USSR sent Sputnik, the first satellite, in space to orbit the Earth. In 1961 the first human journeyed to space, followed in 1969 by the first man on the moon.
We’ve sent rovers...
With all the talk of global warming, overpopulation and massive earthquakes strong enough to destroy the western U.S., who wouldn't be looking for another, safer place to live besides Earth?
In 2011,...
