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Robotic legs fitted to helicopters would let them land like an insect on difficult terrain, researchers say. Movable, articulated legs can increase take-off, landing options for the versatile craft, they suggest.

Intelsat formally protested the Pentagon's award of a satellite services contract to Inmarsat, saying the latter's bid may have been improperly valued. SpaceNews.com

A total lunar eclipse will spawn a rare 'supermoon' blood moon on Sept. 27, 2015. See our complete coverage of the total eclipse of the moon.

A team of astronomers has given us our best view yet of an exoplanet moving in its orbit around a distant star. A series of images captured between November 2013 to April 2015 shows the exoplanet β Pic b as it moves thr...

With his focus on the long term, Blue Origin founder Jeff Bezos said Sept. 15 he is not worried about a possible acquisition of United Launch Alliance that could jeopardize a deal for his company's rocket engines. SpaceN...

Daredevil sungrazing comets risk annihilation every time they skim the surface of our star. Here's how the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory tracks these comet interlopers.

The Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO), a joint effort of NASA and the European Space Agency, spotted comet number 3,000 on Sunday (Sept. 13). The landmark discovery was pulled out of SOHO's database by Worachate ...

NASA rolled out the red carpet for two 'Red Planet' movie actors, providing a behind-the-scenes look at the agency's real journey to Mars with the stars from "The Martian." The cast members visited the agency's Johnson S...

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FL – Restoring America's human path back to space from US soil kicks into high gear at last as construction starts on erecting the new crew access tower on the Atlas V launch pad that will soon pr...

Orion's first crewed sojourn, known as Exploration Mission 2 (EM-2), is targeted for launch in August 2021. But after conducting a thorough review of the Orion program last month, NASA now says EM-2's liftoff will occur ...

The first flight of NASA's Orion spacecraft with people on board could be delayed by more than a year to early 2023, agency officials said Sept. 16. SpaceNews.com

French designers propose an innovative shelter for Mars.

NASA's newest spacecraft, the Orion, won't be flying astronauts as soon as anticipated.

A slight wobble in the orbit of Saturn's moon Enceladus can only be explained by a global ocean beneath its crust.

The satellite is owned by the Russian Satellite Communications Co. of Moscow, which has suffered from Proton's error-prone record in the past six years more than any other company. SpaceNews.com

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NASA scientists say that they've confirmed that an ocean covers the entire moon Enceladus -a 500km-wide body in the outer Solar System. A paper published this week in the journal Icarus images from NASA's Cassini orbiter...

The Sculptor Dwarf Galaxy, pictured in new image from the Wide Field Imager camera, installed on the 2.2-meter MPG/ESO telescope at ESO's La Silla Observatory, is a close neighbor of our galaxy, the Milky Way. Despite th...

Earlier this year, astronomers discovered what appeared to be a pair of supermassive black holes circling toward a collision so powerful it would send a burst of gravitational waves surging through the fabric of space-ti...

Cape Canaveral will be the new home of Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin. The Amazon CEO revealed that the space company will begin building and launching rockets later this decade.

Two senior Boeing executives, speaking at conferences on separate continents Sept. 16, said the company is not seriously considering Aerojet Rocketdyne's $2 billion offer for United Launch Alliance, SpaceNews.com

NASA's mission to send astronauts to deep space destinations where no other human has traveled has taken another important step forward with the completion of a critical milestone for the Orion spacecraft currently in pr...