Additive manufacturing, also known as 3D printing, is regularly used on the ground to quickly produce a variety of devices.

MagniX is developing Helistorm electric engines specifically for helicopters, based on technology already used for its Magni650 electric propulsion units for fixed-wing aircraft.

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 ...

A small Mars-copter confirmed that flight on other planets is possible. But before it could be deployed, Ingenuity had to travel around 480 million kilometers just to reach its mission site.

The race to develop a powerful rocket engine capable of reaching Mars ... electric rocket engine. Italy and the European Union are actively researching similar propulsion systems, while NASA ...

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 ...

NASA’s Lunar Trailblazer approaches the Moon as it enters its science orbit in this artist’s concept. The small satellite will orbit about 60 miles (100 kilometers) above the lunar surface, producing ...

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 ...

I wrote recently about Nasa swarm technology (for satellites) and now here's Nasa swim technology: swimming robots! Pictured is a prototype of a Nasa robot reflected in the water’s surface during a ...

Planetary parades aren't necessarily rare on their own, but the addition of Mercury and Venus makes the lineups more exciting, as they orbit closer to the Sun than Earth and can be hard to see, NASA ...

NASA's Artemis campaign envisions the moon as being a crucial pit stop to prepare U.S. astronauts and their vehicles to travel onward to Mars. The U.S. company that made history in 2024 with an ...

leaps in exploration such as the Ingenuity Mars helicopter have roots back to the NIAC awards, and the awardees could potentially be considered for future NASA missions or commercialization.