NASA's Mars helicopter Ingenuity last flew on Mars. Watch the time-lapse, color images and stats from the flight. Credit: ...

NASA made history with a successful first flight of its experimental helicopter on Mars, the first time an aircraft has flown on another planet. The American space agency made its first controlled ...

Mars helicopter Ingenuity appears to be missing rotor blades in Perseverance rover imagery captured. The rover's SuperCam Remote imager was used to capture the pic. Credit: Space.com | NASA/JPL-Caltec ...

In 2020, NASA launched the Ingenuity Mars Helicopter as part of its Mars 2020 mission, hitching the small rotorcraft aboard the Perseverance rover. The craft touched down on Mars' Jezero Crater on 18 ...

The investigation into the Mars helicopter Ingenuity accident has found that the "lack of surface texture gave the navigation system too little information to work with,” likely causing the rotors ...

Introducing Skyfall: Potential Future Mission Concept for Next-gen Mars Helicopters and Exploration NASA’s incredible Ingenuity helicopter spent nearly three flying across the surface of Mars, ...

NASA has sent over three drones to the famed Death Valley in California for a team to test the unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in extreme conditions. The space agency launched this test in hopes of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. From Ingenuity's flights, it's clear that helicopters offer a new way to explore Mars. Planetary experts are already dreaming up ...

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 ...

Vandi Verma (born Punjab, India) was the head of NASA who made the breakthrough of autonomous drives on the Perseverance rover on Mars in December 2025, the first autonomous drive that operates ...

A slick trailer shows how NASA could five-up itself if the successor to Ingenuity is a whole batch of little sisters. Share on Facebook (opens in a new window) Share on X (opens in a new window) Share ...