NASA's Ingenuity Mars helicopter commanded our attention when it captured ... Avionics test data - essential for identifying potential flaws with electronics sent into deep space - is also being ...

Ingenuity proved beyond a shadow of a doubt that a helicopter can operate on another ... That's where the NASA Mars Chopper comes in. It is being designed as a stand-alone, SUV-sized drone capable ...

The Chinese aerial drone work is taking a different approach than NASA’s Ingenuity Mars helicopter. That history-making autonomous aircraft operated for nearly three years of flight on Mars ...

In this screen grab from a video taken by NASA’s Perseverance rover, the agency's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter is shown before taking flight on Mars, on April 19, 2021. Hubbard believes NASA should ...

Former NASA astronaut José Hernández said Monday that travel to Mars is “a good 15 years away.” “As I’ve always said … space travel is not trivial, and so what we need to do next is ...

Some of NASA’s most significant achievements over recent decades have been delivered by science programs, including its Ingenuity Mars Helicopter flying above the Red Planet and New Horizons ...

"It's like a game of billiards around the solar system, flying by a couple of planets at just the right angle and timing to build up the energy we need to get to Jupiter and Europa." Today (March ...

NASA's Curiosity rover, while investigating Mars' past, has snapped over 683,790 pictures as it's rumbled over 21 miles of unforgiving desert terrain since 2012, and a recent view shows the space ...

Musk himself said in September that his company SpaceX will send manned missions to Mars as early as 2028. NASA’s current timeline is sometime in the 2030s, after a manned mission to the moon ...