NASA’s robot helicopter Ingenuity completed its final mission after a historic 72 flights on Mars. via REUTERS. Ingenuity ultimately buzzed over the Martian terrain 14 times farther than ...

NASA’s Mars helicopter is somehow still flying — and playing hide-and-seek Scientists thought Ingenuity would fail years ago. It’s still flying, although NASA has to search for it occasionally.

Much has been written about the plucky exploits of NASA's small Ingenuity helicopter on Mars. And all of the accolades are deserved. "The little mission that could" did, flying 72 sorties across ...

NASA plans to send the Sample Retrieval Lander to Mars in 2028. That spacecraft, about the size of a two-car garage, will land on the surface and be loaded with rock and soil samples collected by ...

NASA is back in contact with its beloved helicopter on Mars, Ingenuity, two days after a communication blackout. Communications broke down on Thursday, when the little autonomous rotorcraft was ...

NASA engineer Travis Brown described the episode in a blog post last week, offering a dramatic look into the agency’s exploration of Mars, and the incredible resilience of the Ingenuity helicopter.

NASA’s Mars helicopter has been grounded since January 18 after suffering damage to one of its rotors as it came in to land. But its work is not done.

NASA's Ingenuity helicopter, which flew on Mars in April 2021, became the first aircraft to achieve powered, controlled flight on a planet other than Earth.

NASA announced that its Mars Ingenuity helicopter died after years of successfully flying around Mars. It was the first craft to make a powered, controlled flight on another planet.

On April 19, 2021, the NASA Ingenuity Mars Helicopter made history by lifting off the Jezero Crater's floor and becoming the first aircraft to fly on a celestial entity other than Earth.

PASADENA, Calif. — The drone-like Ingenuity helicopter, designed and built at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, successfully completed a brief but historic flight above the surface ...