The otherworldly helicopter, with its 36 blades, is the size of an SUV—a major upgrade from Ingenuity's four blades.

After over 70 flights, the Ingenuity helicopter — the first craft to ever make a powered, controlled flight on another planet ...

Future space helicopters may benefit as NASA completes history's first interplanetary aircraft crash inquiry. The ...

NASA is about to publish the world’s first off-world aircraft accident investigation. Aside from making history, the report ...

Months after NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter crash-landed into the dusty surface of Mars, scientists have finally figured out what went wrong. Ingenuity was the first aircraft to ever fly on ...

The recent images taken by MRO show the solar panels have acquired the same reddish-brown hue as the rest of the planet.

NASA has shown off an early rendering of an enormous Mars Chopper concept, a proposed follow-up to the space agency's groundbreaking Ingenuity Mars Helicopter. The six-rotor monstrosity could turn out ...

Now, NASA engineers are investigating the rotorcraft’s final flight, to better understand the circumstances of its end. Ingenuity broke records on Mars, with the Perseverance rover capturing ...

NASA will soon stop listening for radio signals from the dust-covered InSight lander on Mars. A Mars spacecraft commemorated the mission with a new portrait from space.

The Perseverance rover has reached the top of the Jezero Crater rim on Mars, a hike that rose 1,640 feet — higher than the Empire State Building is tall. NASA mission leaders said the rover ...

NASA's Mars helicopter proved so successful, the space agency is conceptualizing larger, more advanced helicopters that might someday fly on Mars. "In addition to scouting, such a helicopter could ...