NASA's Ingenuity helicopter wasn't just an experiment—it became a trailblazer on Mars.  Discover how this tiny helicopter shocked engineers with its groundbreaking performance and changed the future ...

With 10 instruments and technology tests, Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost lander is part of NASA's Commercial Lunar Payload ...

NASA sees two paths for saving its beleaguered plan to retrieve materials from the Red Planet but won’t choose between them ...

NASA Administrator Bill Nelson left a final decision on a new mission architecture to the next NASA administrator working ...

NASA will investigate two new approaches to bring its Mars samples to Earth through a mission proposal that is less expensive ...

NASA is pitching a cheaper and quicker way of getting rocks and soil back from Mars. Administrator Bill Nelson presented two ...

NASA hopes a revised plan will get Mars samples back to Earth faster and cost less than the agency's original plan.

The Mars Sample Return effort was billions of dollars over budget and not expected to return to Earth with its samples until 2040.

NASA is considering two ways to get its precious Mars samples back to Earth but won't pick a winner for another 18 months or ...

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.

Ingenuity, NASA’s Mars Helicopter, surpassed expectations as the first aircraft to operate on another planet. Despite being designed for five test flights over 30 days, it completed 72 flights across ...

JPL believes the Chopper could be the ideal way to get powerful scientific instruments into areas rovers would be unable to access. Ingenuity was tethered to Perseverance for communication, but the ...