NASA's Mars helicopter Ingenuity recently completed a pair of flights. See the first imagery from flight 33 and a time-lapse ...

NASA engineers have pushed experimental Mars helicopter rotors past the speed of sound, a breakthrough that could eventually ...

Last week, a group of scientists at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena made mankind's first powered flight on another planet — 183 million miles away. It involved a four-pound helicopter called ...

Ingenuity has proven that helicopters can fly on Mars. However, it couldn't lift much. This is set to change with its successors.

Jared Isaacman explained why nuclear-powered spacecraft like SR-1 Freedom are key to sending astronauts to Mars and bringing ...

NASA's Ingenuity helicopter on the Martian desert floor. The craft made over 70 successful flights on Mars. Credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech / LANL / CNES / IRAP / Simeon Schmauß Mars is hard, even for ...

A rendering of the mid-air deployment of one of the SkyFall copters. (NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory/AeroVironment, Inc.) ...

NASA is testing the limits of future Mars aircraft as it works to develop a next-generation fleet of helicopters that will ...

A slick trailer shows how NASA could five-up itself if the successor to Ingenuity is a whole batch of little sisters. Share on Facebook (opens in a new window) Share on X (opens in a new window) Share ...

In 2028, if all goes well, NASA plans to test a new technology that could reduce trip times to the Red Planet.