NASA has successfully tested next-generation Mars helicopter rotors beyond the speed of sound, demonstrating a 30% increase in lifting capability that could allow future aircraft to carry ...

NASA X-59 completed its first supersonic flights in June 2026, generating acoustic data that could help regulators revise the U.S. ban on overland supersonic flight.

On the anniversary of its first flight, NASA's X-59 QueSST has started its first journey east from California, headed to the ...

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 powered, ...

NASA is preparing to send three helicopters to Mars to explore places that rovers struggle to reach. Set to launch in 2028 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A still taken from a NASA video about the SkyFall Mars helicopter mission. NASA wants to send an ambitious fleet of helicopters to ...

Mars Helicopter Ingenuity on Mars. It will sit forever on the apex of a sand ripple in Jezero Crater on Mars. Ingenuity, NASA’s name for its Mars Helicopter, achieved the first powered flight on ...

NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter, right, stands near the apex of a sand ripple in an image taken by Perseverance on Feb. 24, 2024, about five weeks after the rotorcraft’s final flight. Part of one of ...

The American space agency NASA says it has found the likely cause of a crash that grounded its Mars helicopter Ingenuity. The finding comes after NASA said it had carried out the “first aircraft ...