NASA wants to send an ambitious fleet of helicopters to soar through Martian skies—but scientists fear the endeavor could crater existing Red Planet research missions. In March NASA unveiled ...

NASA's Mars helicopter Ingenuity seen flying during a fight. The Perseverance rover can be seen in the distance during the flight in an enhanced color image. Credit: Space.com | footage courtesy: NASA ...

Firefly Aerospace won a $13 million deal to build the shell for NASA's Skyfall mission to Mars. It will send three ...

CNN — The Ingenuity helicopter successfully completed a second flight on Mars Thursday, and it was even more challenging than the first. Ingenuity autonomously flew for almost 52 seconds this time, ...

NASA recently pushed the rotor blades of its next-generation Mars helicopter to Mach 1.08 at its famed Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) near Pasadena, California. JPL is testing a high-performance ...

Ingenuity's little-helicopter-that-could proved that flight on another planet isn't just a one trick pony, but something that can be expanded upon. Enter NASA's next-generation Mars helicopter blades ...

NASA sent its Ingenuity helicopter to Mars nearly two years ago, and it has flown 35 times above the Martian surface since. Last week, the helicopter broke another record. Ingenuity flew a record 46 ...

The rotor blades that will carry NASA's next-generation helicopters to new Martian heights broke the sound barrier during March tests at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California. Data ...

After a few years ago it proved for the first time ever that powered, controlled flight on Mars is possible, American space agency NASA is now planning the next step in planetary exploration. This ...

A little more than three years since NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter ended its pioneering mission at Mars, engineers at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California are designing next-generation Martian ...