The investigation into the Mars helicopter Ingenuity accident has found that the "lack of surface texture gave the navigation ...

NASA Perseverance rover's Mastcam-Z captured the Ingenuity helicopter's 54th flight on Mars last month. A camera onboard ...

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 ...

The Ingenuity helicopter survived its first night on the freezing-cold surface of Mars, a major milestone in the rotorcraft's journey ahead of its historic first flight. Jezero Crater, an ancient lake ...

Last week, a group of scientists at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena made mankind's first powered flight on another planet — 183 million miles away. It involved a four-pound helicopter called ...

Hoping to push Mars exploration into top gear and do recon for a future crewed landing, AeroVironment has released its concept for a mission consisting of half a dozen autonomous helicopters that ...

Engineers say they "did not intentionally plan such a stressful flight." NASA's Ingenuity helicopter, the first powered and controlled aircraft to take flight on another planet, survived a "stressful" ...

NASA confirmed Monday that its experimental helicopter, Ingenuity, flew successfully on Mars for the first time. It marked NASA's first-ever powered, controlled flight on another planet. The little ...

Helicopters on Mars may sound like something from a science fiction novel — or perhaps just a typical "Doctor Who" episode. But actually, they're not fully confined to the world of sci-fi; after all, ...