NASA's Perseverance rover's Mastcam-Z camera captured the Ingenuity helicopter's 47th Mars flight. Credit: Space.com | ...

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

It was a routine flight for the rotorcraft, which had proved that powered, controlled flight was possible on another planet, ...

KURRAM: In a big blow to the peace deal that made it possible to send aid to the restive area, a rocket was fired at the ...

Space fans across much of the US can witness the event as it happens in the night sky. On Monday, Mars will look reddish and bright as the moon passes in front of it, obscuring the planet for over ...

On Monday night, we will see the highlight of the month, as the full wolf moon occults (covers) Mars. In this 2022 astropic, the full moon and Mars had a close encounter. This will be similar to ...

“This is not our first encounter with the Red Planet. The orbiters, rovers, landers, and helicopters of Mars all bear Rocket ...

This week, Mars will shine brighter than at any time since December 2022 as it reaches a point astronomers call "opposition." That means skywatchers will have the best views of the Red Planet ...

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

A Mars rover descends to the surface of the planet ... drones similar to the recently deceased Ingenuity helicopter would pick them up and fly them to a lander. Once the tubes were in space ...

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the Mars Sample Return mission, or MSR, was the most complex robotic planetary science mission ever attempted, one requiring a new NASA sample retrieval lander, one or more small helicopters to ...