A new Mars exploration idea seemingly would drop a hornet's nest of helicopters from high above the Red Planet. The idea comes from the world of unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) concepts here on Earth, ...

The American space agency announced last week that it managed to make the blades of a SkyFall helicopter go over the sound ...

NASA is testing the limits of future Mars aircraft as it works to develop a next-generation fleet of helicopters that will ...

A little more than three years since NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter ended its pioneering mission at Mars, engineers at the Jet ...

NASA engineers spun next-gen Mars helicopter blades past Mach 1 without shattering them. See how JPL unlocked the future of ...

ARLINGTON, Va., July 24, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, AeroVironment, Inc. (AVAV), a global leader in intelligent, multi-domain autonomous systems, revealed Skyfall—a potential future mission concept ...

NASA has successfully tested an improved flight system designed for Mars' hostile environment. The new technology can be ...

It's been more than four years now since the United States became the first nation in the world to achieve powered flight on another planet. Responsible for that is a little helicopter-style drone ...

For decades, nuclear propulsion has been a fixture of aerospace engineering proposals and government studies, always promising, never quite leaving the laboratory. That changes in 2028. NASA announced ...