A rendering of the mid-air deployment of one of the SkyFall copters. (NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory/AeroVironment, Inc.) ...

Engineers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California, have demonstrated that the blades of their ...

Rotors spin 10 times faster than modern helicopters.

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

Ingenuity has proven that helicopters can fly on Mars. However, it couldn't lift much. This is set to change with its successors.

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

NASA has pushed Mars helicopter rotor blades past Mach 1, a step toward future aircraft that could carry heavier science ...

The rotor blades that will carry NASA's next-generation helicopters to new Martian heights broke the sound barrier during ...

NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) has successfully tested new rotor blades that surpassed the ...

Ingenuity's little-helicopter-that-could proved that flight on another planet isn't just a one trick pony, but something that can be expanded upon. Enter NASA's next-generation Mars helicopter blades ...

It’s always good news when we hear about NASA’s “out-of-this-world” next steps toward building a replacement for Ingenuity, the small Mars helicopter-drone. With 72 flights over 1,004 days, Ingenuity ...