The US space agency said Friday it plans to launch the first-ever helicopter to Mars in 2020, a miniature, unmanned drone-like chopper that could boost our understanding of the Red Planet. Known ...

NASA's Mars helicopter Ingenuity made history again Thursday with another epic Red Planet flight. This time, controllers on Earth completed a more challenging flight by climbing to 16 feet and tilting ...

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NASA has long been able to check out Mars on the ground with rovers and landers and from far above with orbital spacecraft. Now, it wants to prove that it can sustainably fly around the planet's thin ...