Flying a helicopter on Earth is difficult enough. Flying one on Mars—where the atmosphere is less than 1% as dense—is ...

NASA's nuclear-powered mission to Mars is taking shape with the selection of Firefly Aerospace to design and manufacture the ...

American space agency NASA selected Firefly Aerospace to design and build the heat shield for the SkyFall mission planned for 2028.

NASA wants to send an ambitious fleet of helicopters to soar through Martian skies—but scientists fear the endeavor could crater existing Red Planet research missions.

Cedar Park-based Firefly Aerospace in will build a heat-shielded aeroshell for NASA's 2028 SkyFall Mars helicopter mission.

April 19 (UPI) --On this date in history: In 1775, the American Revolutionary War began at the Battle of Lexington, Mass. Eight minutemen were killed and 10 injured in an exchange of musket fire with ...

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 ...

NASA recently pushed the rotor blades of its next-generation Mars helicopter to Mach 1.08 at its famed Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) near Pasadena, California. JPL is testing a high-performance ...

NASA's Perseverance rover will land on the red planet in about a month, but the rover won't be the only newly arrived robotic explorer. The wheeled robot carries the Mars Helicopter Ingenuity on its ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A still taken from a NASA video about the SkyFall Mars helicopter mission. NASA wants to send an ambitious fleet of helicopters to ...