In December, NASA unveiled another concept: an SUV-sized “ Mars Chopper ” with six rotor blades. This larger helicopter would ...

In an exciting development, the plucky helicopter has now inspired Skyfall, a mission concept recently unveiled by Virginia-based AeroVironment (AV) and NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), who ...

The helicopters will scout the Martian surface to help prepare for a human landing on the Red Planet.

From a half-million miles away, NASA's Europa Clipper spacecraft captured Mars with its two moons, Phobos and Deimos, in ...

Donald Trump plans to scrap Nasa's Mars Sample Return mission – stranding test tubes on the Red Planet and ceding potentially ...

AeroVironment and NASA's JPL have shown off a wild concept for deploying six helicopters above the surface of Mars.

"With six helicopters, Skyfall offers a low-cost solution that multiplies the range we would cover, the data we would collect ...

When you think of space, do you picture extreme cold? If you do, you’d be right. That’s why NASA is pouring serious effort ...

Planned moon and Mars missions require timely communications and navigation systems, which is prompting NASA officials to ...

A TOP scientist claims she was sacked by Nasa after raising concerns about alien life on Mars. Catharine Conley, the agency’s Planetary Protection Officer from 2006 to 2017, also fears SpaceX ...

The US space agency NASA will lose about 3,900 employees under Donald Trump's sweeping effort to trim the federal workforce - ...

The aerospace giant says it can revive Mars Sample Return with a leaner, lower-cost approach drawing on proven designs.