The rotor blades that will carry NASA's next-generation helicopters to new Martian heights broke the sound barrier during ...

A little more than three years since NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter ended its pioneering mission at Mars, engineers at the ...

NASA's Perseverance rover's Mastcam-Z camera captured the Ingenuity helicopter's 47th Mars flight on March 9, 2023. The little helicopter snapped a few images of its own during the flight too. Credit: ...

For years, nuclear propulsion sat in the same category as so many ambitious space ideas, impressive on paper, always a few ...

NASA successfully landed its fifth robotic rover, Perseverance, on the surface of Mars on Thursday after its six-month voyage from Earth. "Touchdown confirmed," NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory ...

It’s always good news when we hear about NASA’s “out-of-this-world” next steps toward building a replacement for Ingenuity, the small Mars helicopter-drone. With 72 flights over 1,004 days, Ingenuity ...

NASA has long been able to check out Mars on the ground with rovers and landers and from far above with orbital spacecraft. Now, it wants to prove that it can sustainably fly around the planet's thin ...

Nasa engineers spun experimental Mars helicopter blades past Mach 1 in simulated Martian conditions.

Helicopters on Mars may sound like something from a science fiction novel — or perhaps just a typical "Doctor Who" episode. But actually, they're not fully confined to the world of sci-fi; after all, ...

In 2021, NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab successfully launched the first powered flight on another planet with the Ingenuity drone helicopter, co-developed with AeroVironment, Inc. Now, the two are ...

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Credit: NASA The team has started assembling the honeycomb panels for the aircraft's main body, completed a series of drop ...