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The gravity and atmosphere of the Red Planet are far different than that of Earth. Helicopter design would have to be altered - NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory Bob Balaram explains the challenges.

The NASA rover landed on the Red Planet on Jan. 25th, 2004 (Jan 24th PST). It has driven 25.9 miles since.

"Robotic controllers let the CATS out of the bag!" So says NASA spokesman Dan Huot in a cool new NASA timelapse video showing in detail how CATS crawled around the space stations gangly exterior and clawed its way into i...

Two competitive national security launches, the first to be awarded under the U.S. Air Force's main satellite launching program in 15 years, will be among the Defense Department's most closely watched space-related procu...

In two of this year's higher-profile civil space procurements, NASA's commercial cargo carriers face challengers for follow-on contracts to haul supplies to the International Space Station, while Ball Aerospace is compet...

I’ve always been an Edgar Allan Poe fan, so much so that I even watched the horrifying—not in a good way–2012 film The Raven. --

Elon Musk "appears" as himself in an episode of Fox's longest-running animated series The Simpsons premiering Sunday, Jan. 25. The post Elon Musk Guest Stars on ‘The Simpsons’ Jan. 25 appeared first on SpaceNews.com.

Prolific comet hunter Terry Lovejoy shares his secrets --

Not all comets breakup as they vent and age, but for Rosetta's comet 67P, the Rubber Duckie comet, a crack in the neck raises concerns. Some comets may just fizzle and uniformly expel their volatiles throughout their sur...

The smooth rollout of the $11 billion JPSS program, which will feed U.S. weather forecasting models through 2028, is among Volz's top challenges as he takes the reins at NOAA's satellite office. The post Profile | Stephe...

SpaceX’s Elon Musk and fellow tech mogel Greg Wyler both have plans for low-earth-orbit satellite networks that could fill in many of the world's current gaps in Internet coverage. Larry... --

Flying across Greenland more than 100 times, NASA's Operation IceBridge's ice penetrating radar produced a three dimensional view, peering back to an Earth as it was over 115,000 years ago.

SpaceX will drop its lawsuit against the U.S. Air Force in exchange for the service making more national security launch missions available for competition. The post SpaceX, Air Force Settle Lawsuit over ULA Blockbuy app...