When NASA's Ingenuity helicopter took flight on Mars in April 2021, it marked a historic moment in space exploration. This small, solar-powered rotorcraft became the first aircraft to achieve powered, ...

NASA held a tribute to the Ingenuity Mars Helicopter’s legacy on Wednesday. Watch the event in the player above. The space agency announced Thursday that the 4-pound (1.8-kilogram) chopper named ...

Engineers say they "did not intentionally plan such a stressful flight." NASA's Ingenuity helicopter, the first powered and controlled aircraft to take flight on another planet, survived a "stressful" ...

After nearly three years of exploring Mars, Ingenuity apparently suffered damage during its last flight, bringing its amazing mission to an end. Just one week ago, on January 18, 2024, NASA's ...

NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) has retired its Mars helicopter Ingenuity after the craft suffered damage during landing. The aircraft, which arrived on Mars with the Perseverance rover in 2021 ...

Last week, one of the most innovative missions in space exploration came to a bitter end. NASA’s famously successful Ingenuity rotorcraft — the 3.5-pound helicopter-like robot collecting samples on ...

After nearly three years soaring through the red skies of Mars, NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter is permanently grounded. The agency launched the little four-pound chopper in July 2020, with Ingenuity ...

Mars just got a bit quieter now that the whirring blades of NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter have fallen silent. The tiny craft was about the size of a tissue box, with four spindly legs and a set of ...

Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech (CNN) — After completing 72 historic flights on Mars over three years, NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter mission has ended. Originally designed as an experiment, Ingenuity became ...

Epic. That might be the best word to describe the journey of NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter on Mars. It outperformed all expectations, but its mission is now at an end. Ingenuity has a damaged blade and ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — NASA’s little ...