CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — NASA’s experimental helicopter Ingenuity rose into the thin air above the dusty red surface of Mars on Monday, achieving the first powered flight by an aircraft on another ...

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 ...

Katrin Raynor reveals how Ingenuity’s triumph on Mars opened up a bold new era of flight on other worlds ...

On July 24 last year, AeroVironment revealed the mission concept for 'Skyfall,' a fleet of Martian scout helicopters that it would develop in conjunction with NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory to help ...

On1, NASA's Ingenuity helicopter flew for 39 seconds on the surface Mars, the first powered aircraft to take flight on ...

Five years ago, on April 19, 2021, a helicopter called Ingenuity took off from the surface. In case you are wondering why ...

NASA has long been able to check out Mars on the ground with rovers and landers and from far above with orbital spacecraft. Now, it wants to prove that it can sustainably fly around the planet's thin ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla — A piece of the Wright brothers’ first airplane is on Mars. NASA’s experimental Martian helicopter holds a small swatch of fabric from the 1903 Wright Flyer, the space agency ...

NASA is poised to mark another space milestone in the coming weeks by launching the Ingenuity helicopter over the red planet. Ingenuity landed with the Perseverance rover last month, which has been ...

Ahead of a potential April 1 launch of the Artemis II mission from Florida, here's what to know about NASA's plans to one day send humans to Mars.