Ingenuity arrived on Mars attached to Nasa's Perseverance rover, which landed inside Jezero Crater on 18 February 2021 as part of the Mars 2020 mission.Weighing just 1.8 kilograms, the helicopter was ...

The Ingenuity helicopter’s flying days are over. After an astonishing 72 flights over the course of nearly three years, the drone has sustained damage to one of its rotors and can no longer take to ...

Flying helicopters on Earth is a strong foundation for landing spacecraft on the moon. Mark Piesing European Space Agency astronauts hone the skills for landing on the moon by taking a helicopter ...

Airbus Helicopters has revealed a new clean-sheet concept rotorcraft to validate a selection of new technologies it hopes will collectively deliver a fuel-burn reduction of up to 50%. Dubbed the ...