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 ...

NASA's Ingenuity helicopter conducted its 63rd Mars flight, flying 1,901 feet (579 meters) horizontally. Credit: Space.com | ...

NASA's Mars helicopter flew for the 62nd time. Flight Statistics: Horizontal Distance: 268 m / ~880 ft Max. Altitude: 18 m / ...

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 ...

In 2021, NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab successfully launched the first powered flight on another planet with the Ingenuity drone helicopter, co-developed with AeroVironment, Inc. Now, the two are ...

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" ...

From NASA's Death Valley tests for Mars helicopter replacements to Ukraine's interceptor drones, the rapid evolution of drone ...

NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory is testing drone navigation software in Death Valley to prepare future rotorcraft for Mars’ terrain.