One of my gripes with "The Martian" movie was the depiction of the winds on Mars. The lower air density means that the sort ...

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

A report by German aerospace engineers questions whether SpaceX's Starship could take humans to Mars before the decade is out ...

When NASA's Ingenuity helicopter took flight on Mars in April 2021, it marked a historic moment in space exploration. This small, solar-powered rotorcraft became the first aircraft to achieve ...

NASA will investigate two new approaches ... If the rover couldn't make the drive, drones similar to the recently deceased Ingenuity helicopter would pick them up and fly them to a lander.

This digital-image mosaic of Mars’ Tharsis plateau shows the extinct volcano Arsia Mons. This image of an area the Mars Perseverance rover team calls “Faillefeu” was captured by NASA’s Ingenuity Mars ...

One plan to return Perseverance's samples to Earth called for a lander to touch down near the rover, use a sophisticated robotic arm (or perhaps robotic drones like NASA's Ingenuity Mars ...