NASA's Perseverance rover is the latest marvel in Mars exploration, and it's not alone on its mission. Along for the ride is ...

NASA Perseverance rover's Mastcam-Z captured the Ingenuity helicopter's 54th flight on Mars. A camera onboard Ingenuity ...

Ingenuity, the little Mars helicopter that became the first aircraft in history to make a powered, controlled flight on another planet, can no longer fly due to rotor blade damage, NASA announced ...

NASA’s famously successful Ingenuity rotorcraft — the 3.5-pound helicopter-like robot collecting samples on Mars — finally came to a crashing end.

Ingenuity, the first robot ever to fly on Mars, suffered rotor-blade damage during its most recent hop and can no longer fly, NASA announced today (Jan. 25).

NASA is retiring Ingenuity, its mini Mars helicopter, a week after it was damaged during its 72nd flight. The spindly overachiever made history as the first aircraft to complete a powered, ...

Why is Mars barren and uninhabitable, while life has always thrived here on our relatively similar planet Earth? A new study ...

NASA graphic of the most likely scenario for the crash of NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter during its 72nd flight on Jan. 18, 2024. NASA/JPL-Caltech ...

NASA engineers only intended the Mars Perseverance Rover’s Ingenuity helicopter to complete a maximum of five experimental test flights over 30 days in 2021. The experimental vehicle, however ...

However, NASA has learned a lot from Ingenuity’s various record-breaking flights. While the helicopter was built to be affordable while still demanding large amounts of computer power, ...

Image source: NASA/JPL-Caltech. Ingenuity survived its first near-death experience back in 2021. But the Mars-based helicopter’s troubles didn’t stop there.