One of my gripes with "The Martian" movie was the depiction of the winds on Mars. The lower air density means that the sort ...

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

When NASA's Ingenuity helicopter took flight on Mars in April 2021, it marked a historic moment in space exploration. This small, solar-powered rotorcraft became the first aircraft to achieve ...

It was a routine flight for the rotorcraft, which had proved that powered, controlled flight was possible on another planet, ...

Orbital dynamics show that President Trump’s pledge to land astronauts on Mars couldn’t happen until 2029 at the earliest.

Credit: La Cañada Flintridge Tournament of Roses Association NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter, the first aircraft to achieve powered flight on another planet, is now the first drone to fly on a ...

NASA Administrator Bill Nelson left a final decision on a new mission architecture to the next NASA administrator working under the incoming Trump administration. President-elect Donald Trump ...

Mars in 2024 was the site of the sad end of a machine that lived far beyond expectations. On January 18, NASA's Ingenuity ...

While SpaceX lost the upper stage of its new Starship in a flight test, the futuristic spacecraft presages a spaceflight revolution, says a leading U.S. space scholar.

NASA has unveiled the successor of its highly successful Ingenuity helicopter ... not only of Mars but of any alien worlds with a solid surface and an atmosphere that can support flight.