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The brand-new Miller Advanced Research and Solutions Center, or MARS, primarily focuses on aerospace advancement.

MARS: The Miller’s mission

Hunter Lindsey, Reporter September 27, 2022

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...

This is the first 360-degree panorama taken by Mastcam-Z, a zoomable pair of cameras aboard NASA’s Mars rover Perseverance. Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS/ASU

Perseverance finds a home on Mars

Mackenzie Dessin February 24, 2021

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...

Neil deGrasse Tyson at the Emmy Awards on Sept. 9, 2018 in Los Angeles. (Birdie Thompson/AdMedia/Zuma Press/TNS)

Scientific Celebrity at the Eccles Theatre

John Wise October 29, 2018

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...

From the Collecting Innovation Today interview with innovator Elon Musk on June 26, 2008 at SpaceX, part of The Henry Fords OnInnovation project that celebrates the contributions of todays innovators. (Flickr)

Colonizing Mars: the ultimate doomsday prep

Kainoa Nunez September 6, 2018

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...

Elon Musk, Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Space Exploration Technologies Corporation (SpaceX), speaks on the final day of the 68th International Astronautical Congress (IAC) in Adelaide, Australia, on Sept. 29, 2017.  (Xu Haijing/Xinhua/Zuma Press/TNS)

SpaceX: Profiting from the final frontier

Zac Watts June 4, 2018

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....

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10,000 years of change

Sunny Mallick April 6, 2018

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....

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The final frontier: colonizing our solar system

Zac Watts October 27, 2017

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....

Mars from orbit in Feb.1980. Daniel R. Adamo, co-founder of the Space Enterprise Institute, discusses Mars with WSU science students on Feb. 22. (Source: Mars_Valles_Marineris.jpeg / Wikimedia Commons)

Ex-NASA mission expert talks pros and cons of colonizing the Red Planet

Molly Horne February 26, 2017

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...

Daniel Adamo, expert in space flight trajectory, will lecture on the logistics of getting humans to Mars. (Source: Pixabay)

Mars on the docket? Getting to and from the red planet

Leah Higginbotham February 21, 2017

“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,...

Like it or not, it's home

Tanoya Poulsen October 14, 2015

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...

Mars One to establish human settlement on Mars

November 6, 2014

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,...

Fourty-fifth anniversary of mankind's leap into space

July 28, 2014

Flashback to 1969 – a fateful day on July 20, some of you sitting anxiously in front of the television, holding your breath for man to reach the moon. For others, it’s something you’ve only heard...

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