Flying a helicopter on Earth is a remarkable engineering achievement. Flying one on Mars, where the atmosphere is less than 1% as dense as Earth's, was once considered nearly impossible.

NASA's veteran rover is showing signs of age, but it continues making discoveries about the planet's ancient environment.

In 2020, NASA launched the Ingenuity Mars Helicopter as part of its Mars 2020 mission, hitching the small rotorcraft aboard the Perseverance rover. The craft touched down on Mars' Jezero Crater on 18 ...

NASA's Mars 2020 rover is continuing to explore a boundary visible from orbit dividing bright, fractured outcrop from darker, smoother regolith (also known as a contact). The team has called this ...

NASA test-fired a lithium-fed magnetoplasmadynamic (MPD) thruster on February 24 at JPL in Southern California, a historic fi ...

Over a hundred free, print-ready 3D models, straight from NASA.

Kendra Pierre-Louis: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Kendra Pierre-Louis, in for Rachel Feltman. In July of 2020, NASA engineers sent a rover named Perseverance hurtling into space. And ...

Though some might favor an encore for NASA's Saturn V in President Bush's plans to reinvigorate human space exploration, the famous rocket that propelled Americans to the moon 31 years ago is unlikely ...

New research presented at the COSPAR space conference in Florence points to possible signs of ancient microbial life on Mars, ...