Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A still taken from a NASA video about the SkyFall Mars helicopter mission. NASA wants to send an ambitious fleet of helicopters to ...

NASA’s SkyFall mission will build on the success of the Ingenuity Mars helicopter, which achieved the first powered, ...

From 2021 to 2024, NASA's Ingenuity helicopter became the first vehicle of its kind to explore the Martian atmosphere and surface. With that proof of concept complete, NASA is preparing to send a trio ...

NASA's nuclear-powered mission to Mars is taking shape with the selection of Firefly Aerospace to design and manufacture the protective aeroshell that will shield the Skyfall spacecraft's descent ...

NASA recently pushed the rotor blades of its next-generation Mars helicopter to Mach 1.08 at its famed Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) near Pasadena, California. JPL is testing a high-performance ...

For the first time in more than 30 years, NASA has no firm plans to send any new landers or rovers to Mars. Instead, the agency’s near-term focus at the red planet is on aerial drones, a pioneering ...

A radar engineer works on a test antenna for the SkyFall mission’s ground-penetrating radar in the electromagnetic interference chamber at JPL. Nasa.gov Engineers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory ...

NASA wants to send an ambitious fleet of helicopters to soar through Martian skies—but scientists fear the endeavor could crater existing Red Planet research missions. “We’re in this tough spot of, ...