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.

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

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The European Space Agency and NASA just served up a reminder that Mars is not the static, frozen husk many picture. Each ...

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

You won’t believe what NASA has uncovered on Mars! From massive angel-like figures and mysterious doorways to strange faces ...

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