NASA's Ingenuity helicopter, which flew on Mars in April 2021, became the first aircraft to achieve powered, controlled flight on a planet other than Earth.

NASA's Ingenuity helicopter performed its final flight on Mars. The drone was designed only as a technology demonstration, ...

NASA's 2024 started with a crash that brought an abrupt end to one of its most remarkable missions of recent years.

The City of La Cañada Flintridge celebrated the Jet Propulsion Propulsion Laboratory and Mars exploration with its 2025 float ...

NASA’s retired InSight lander, now covered in Martian dust, continues to offer insights into Mars through images captured by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. Over its four-year mission, InSight ...

One Earth satellite can see plankton that photosynthesize. The other measures water surface height. Together, their data ...

Ingenuity, NASA’s Mars Helicopter, surpassed expectations as the first aircraft to operate on another planet. Despite being designed for five test flights over 30 days, it completed 72 flights across ...

Unfortunate timing The first panel of this artist's concept depicts how Uranus's magnetosphere – its protective bubble – was ...

Coastal aquifers around the globe face an escalating threat of saltwater intrusion by 2100, driven by rising sea levels and ...

NASA has confirmed that asteroid 2024 XN1, about the size of a commercial jet, will safely pass Earth on December 24. It will ...

NASA's beleaguered Mars Sample Return program currently faces extreme costs of up to $11 billion and a timeline that could reach 2040.

At a recent meeting of the US Geophysical Union, Teddy Tzanetos from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) talked about the early work on the Mars Chopper. There's a video (below) showing how the ...