Engineers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California, have demonstrated that the blades of their ...

The American space agency announced last week that it managed to make the blades of a SkyFall helicopter go over the sound ...

The SR-71 Blackbird is a legend in the world of military aircraft, and NASA may have received one a bit earlier than it was ...

A rendering of the mid-air deployment of one of the SkyFall copters. (NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory/AeroVironment, Inc.) ...

Rotors spin 10 times faster than modern helicopters.

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

NASA has successfully tested an improved flight system designed for Mars' hostile environment. The new technology can be ...

NASA’s Mars helicopter, Ingenuity, has been grounded since January 18 after suffering damage to one of its rotors as it came in to land. The team at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), which ...

The X-59 has flown on nine more occasions, most recently on April 14 when it accomplished some of its biggest feats to date ...

NASA’s high-altitude WB-57 aircraft departs July 8, 2025, from Ellington Field in Houston. Two high-altitude aircraft from NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston were deployed to the Texas Hill ...