The Ingenuity Mars helicopter was never supposed to last this long. NASA engineers built and tested the first self-powered aircraft to fly on another planet to answer a simple question: Could the ...

NASA's Ingenuity helicopter on the Martian desert floor. The craft made over 70 successful flights on Mars. Credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech / LANL / CNES / IRAP / Simeon Schmauß Mars is hard, even for ...

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After more than two years on the red planet, the Mars helicopter Ingenuity has broken two new records, NASA said. The helicopter on Sunday flew 14.5 miles per hour, beating its previous record of 13.4 ...

NASA's Mars helicopter Ingenuity has performed its shortest-ever flight, the first after a major software update that will allow the little chopper to land more safely and navigate over rugged terrain ...

Designed to fly just five times over 30 days, NASA's Ingenuity helicopter lasted nearly three years, soaring across the surface of Mars and logging 72 flights before a hard or tilted landing that ...

Ingenuity Festival will be celebrating its 21st anniversary this fall. To get things moving in the right direction, the ...

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 sent ...