NASA’s first Mars helicopter turned a risky experiment into a new way of exploring another world, and now its successors are being shaped in some of the harshest deserts on Earth. The next generation ...

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 ...

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 ...

It’s always good news when we hear about NASA’s “out-of-this-world” next steps toward building a replacement for Ingenuity, the small Mars helicopter-drone. With 72 flights over 1,004 days, Ingenuity ...

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 ...

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 ...

NASA's nuclear-powered mission to Mars is taking shape with the selection of Firefly Aerospace to design and manufacture the protective aeroshell that will shield the Skyfall spacecraft's descent ...

Cedar Park-based Firefly Aerospace in will build a heat-shielded aeroshell for NASA's 2028 SkyFall Mars helicopter mission.

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 ...