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

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 ...

Rotors spin 10 times faster than modern helicopters.

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

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’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 ...

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

Ingenuity, NASA's Mars helicopter was forced to end its mission after taking some critical damage in a landing, but the small helicopter will not be going gently into that good Martian night. NASA ...

NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter is two days away from making humanity’s first attempt at powered, controlled flight of an aircraft on another planet. If all proceeds as planned, the 4-pound (1.8-kg) ...

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