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

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

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

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

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 ...

Visible on the planet itself is a dark patch near the top, marking the frigid northern polar cap, where temperatures dip to ...

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

A NASA Mars mission's long and winding road to the launch pad is nearing its end. The twin ESCAPADE (Escape and Plasma ...

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

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.