The robotic rotorcraft mission aims to target a region on Mars known as Eastern Noctis Labyrinthus. This region is a mosaic ...

Although the helicopter, aptly named Ingenuity, is only a technology demonstrator ... But Ingenuity has far more modest goals, mainly as a proof-of-concept of non-terrestrial flight.

Tzanetos and other Ingenuity alumni are currently researching how future Mars helicopters—including the Mars Science Helicopter concept—could benefit explorations of the Red Planet and beyond.

Ingenuity, a helicopter weighing only 1,800 grams, wrote a year ago a page in the history of space exploration when flying for the first time on another planet. His five planned flights on Mars ...

A proposed Mars helicopter mission would search for signs of life, water and future human footholds in a vast volcanic canyon ...

NASA’s Mars Ingenuity helicopter made history early Monday when the drone became the first powered craft to fly on another world. In this video, WSJ visits the company NASA contracted to build ...

A second workshop focused on a JPL concept in early development ... who see the incredible potential of Mars helicopters. Less than five months after Ingenuity’s first flight, China revealed ...

Nasa’s Ingenuity Mars helicopter transmitted its final message to Earth and will now serve as an immobile data-gathering unit on the red planet’s surface, the space agency said last month.