The Mars Helicopter, a small, autonomous rotorcraft, will travel with the agency’s Mars 2020 rover mission, currently scheduled to launch in July 2020, to demonstrate the viability and potential of ...

NASA has long been able to check out Mars on the ground with rovers and landers and from far above with orbital spacecraft. Now, it wants to prove that it can sustainably fly around the planet's thin ...

The US space agency said Friday it plans to launch the first-ever helicopter to Mars in 2020, a miniature, unmanned drone-like chopper that could boost our understanding of the Red Planet. Known ...

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 ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — NASA’s experimental helicopter Ingenuity rose into the thin air above the dusty red surface of Mars on Monday, achieving the first powered flight by an aircraft on another ...

NASA is poised to mark another space milestone in the coming weeks by launching the Ingenuity helicopter over the red planet. Ingenuity landed with the Perseverance rover last month, which has been ...

NASA announced this week the Ingenuity helicopter will attempt its first test flight over Mars on Monday. The flight is scheduled for Sunday, but results won’t make it back to Earth until Monday. A ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The first astronauts to set foot on Mars should hunt for signs of past or present Red Planet life. That's the overarching ...

This illustration shows the drone-like Mars-copter that will be included in the Mars 2020 mission. NASA / JPL-Caltech Time to spread those little wings and fly! NASA will send a helicopter to Mars in ...