NASA's nuclear-powered mission to Mars is taking shape with the selection of Firefly Aerospace to design and manufacture the ...

Flying a helicopter on Earth is difficult enough. Flying one on Mars—where the atmosphere is less than 1% as dense—is something many engineers thought would be impossible. NASA expected Ingenuity to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A still taken from a NASA video about the SkyFall Mars helicopter mission. NASA wants to send an ambitious fleet of helicopters to ...

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, ...

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 ...

Firefly Aerospace, a US-based space and defence technology company, announced a US$13 million subcontract from NASA’s Jet ...

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 ...

NASA's Viking 1 mission blazed a crucial trail with its Mars landing on July 20, 1976. Now, half a century later, that trail ...

NASA's Mars helicopter Ingenuity made history again Thursday with another epic Red Planet flight. This time, controllers on Earth completed a more challenging flight by climbing to 16 feet and tilting ...

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 ...