Five years ago, on April 19, 2021, a helicopter called Ingenuity took off from the surface. In case you are wondering why this feat represents a Wright brothers’ moment in aviation history, it is ...

NASA is poised to mark another space milestone in the coming weeks by launching the Ingenuity helicopter over the red planet. Ingenuity landed with the Perseverance rover last month, which has been ...

Katrin Raynor reveals how Ingenuity’s triumph on Mars opened up a bold new era of flight on other worlds ...

The flight lasted just under 40 seconds, but its significance was enormous. It proved that powered flight was possible in Mars' thin atmosphere, which is just about 1% as dense as Earth's.

For years, nuclear propulsion sat in the same category as so many ambitious space ideas, impressive on paper, always a few ...