A Chinese team has detailed an innovative drone plan for acquiring Martian samples, incorporating measures to mitigate ...

NASA's next Mars chopper concept could do far more than fly — it could help unlock the planet's watery past, reveal signs of ...

NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter has completed over 50 successful flights on Mars, surpassing all expectations for what was originally planned as a brief technology demonstration. The tiny aircraft has ...

NASA's Ingenuity helicopter, which flew on Mars in April 2021, became the first aircraft to achieve powered, controlled flight on a planet other than Earth.

The craft offered an incredible view of the Red Planet's surface, and now NASA has begun designing a next-generation Martian helicopter to continue its work, reports Futurism.

NASA's Mars helicopter proved so successful, the space agency is conceptualizing larger, more advanced helicopters that might someday fly on Mars. After over 70 flights, the Ingenuity helicopter ...

It traveled to Mars tucked inside the Perseverance rover’s belly. On April 19, 2021, NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter lifted its scrawny legs 10 feet off the Martian ground.

The Martian aircraft, which would be powered by the solar panels spread across its wings, has a strong Mars influence: NASA's Ingenuity helicopter — a NIAC-graduate and the first craft to make a ...

The Ingenuity Mars helicopter, the first aircraft to operate and fly on another planet, has come to an end after sustaining damage to one or more of its rotor blades.

After completing 72 historic flights on Mars over three years, NASA's Ingenuity helicopter mission has ended. Originally designed as an experiment, Ingenuity became the first aircraft to operate ...

The parachute got it down to about 200 miles per hour, but the Martian air wasn’t thick enough to slow it down more than that. No longer useful, the parachute and the backshell it was anchored ...