NASA has successfully pushed the rotor blades of itsnext-generation Mars helicopters past the speed of sound, marking a major advancement in the agency’s exploration of the Red Planet. These rotor ...

NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) has successfully tested new rotor blades that surpassed the ...

NASA has pushed Mars helicopter rotor blades past Mach 1, a step toward future aircraft that could carry heavier science ...

A little more than three years since NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter ended its pioneering mission at Mars, engineers at the Jet ...

The rotor blades that will carry NASA's next-generation helicopters to new Martian heights broke the sound barrier during ...

NASA's Next-Gen Mars… Engineer Jaakko Karras inspects a next-generation Mars helicopter rotor blade prior to supersonic speed ...

Helicopters on Mars may sound like something from a science fiction novel — or perhaps just a typical "Doctor Who" episode. But actually, they're not fully confined to the world of sci-fi; after all, ...

When NASA announced a new Mars helicopter mission called Skyfall last week, the immediate response from most scientists had little to do with the ambitious plan to launch tiny, robotic aircraft to the ...