The launch in late 1996 of the Mars Pathfinder mission with its Sojourner rover then was exciting news indeed. Before Spirit, the exceptionally long-lived Opportunity, and the relatively huge ...

Ingenuity Mars Helicopter on April 19 ... for a month across the red planet to dig out the remains of NASA’s Pathfinder lander from 1987 to use its cameras to communicate with Earth.

American space agency NASA is looking into nickel-titanium as a potential material for future planetary rovers wheels, ...

NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter, the first aircraft to achieve powered flight on another planet, is now the first drone to fly on a parade float — in the form of a flower-covered replica.