NASA's Ingenuity helicopter, which flew on Mars in April 2021, became the first aircraft to achieve powered, controlled flight on a planet other than Earth.

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This oblique perspective view was generated using a digital terrain model and Mars Express data gathered over orbits 18042 ...

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NASA footage shows fly on Mars rover. An Oct. 24 Facebook video (direct link, archive link) shows purported images from a ...

NASA has always dreamt of colonizing other planets, and Mars is usually the center of all this. However, recent developments suggest a shift in focus to a different, more challenging destination: ...

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A new study explores how variations in Mars' crustal thickness during its ancient history may have influenced the planet's magmatic evolution and hydrological systems. The research suggests that the ...

This iconic image captured by the Apollo 8 astronauts in 1968 shows Earth rising over the lunar horizon. It's a reminder of the beauty and fragility of our home planet. This supernova remnant is the ...

NASA’s InSight lander was a very different mission from the space agency’s famous wheeled Mars rovers. It plunked down in the Elysium Planitia region in 2018 and stayed in one spot to study ...

Two stranded NASA astronauts, who have been stuck on the International Space Station (ISS) for seven months, just got their return mission extended again. The launch of the next astronaut crew, ...

For the past two years, a NASA spacecraft has sat lifeless on the surface of Mars, its solar panels caked with dirt. From a ...