NASA Hopes to Fly Plane on Mars Amid Ingenuity Helicopter's Success
The space agency has been working on a Mars glider prototype for years, and in a recent Q&A scientists said it would be possible to fly one on the Red Planet.
Every NASA Perseverance Milestone so Far As Rover Makes Oxygen on Mars
Perseverance took some of Mars' CO2-rich atmosphere and created enough oxygen to allow an astronaut to breathe for 10 minutes.
NASA Scientist Tears up Contingency Speech After Ingenuity Flight Success
"We have been thinking for so long about having our Wright brothers moment on Mars, and here it is," MiMi Aung said.
NASA Mars Photos Show Ingenuity Helicopter's Historic First Flight
The little helicopter flew in the early hours of Monday, and photos were beamed back to Earth hours later. It marks the first time humanity has conducted powered flight on another planet.
What NASA's Mars Helicopter's First Flight Means for Space Exploration
"Showing something is possible is the first step in making it routine," researcher Jonathan Black told Newsweek.
NASA Mars Ingenuity Helicopter's First Flight Could Now Be Next Week
A software issue has prevented the little helicopter from taking off so far, but a fix is now underway.
NASA's Mars Ingenuity Helicopter First Flight Postponed Indefinitely
Engineers are preparing to carefully reinstall the robot's flight software. NASA is aiming to announce a new flight date next week.
What NASA's Mars Rover Mission Has Achieved In Its First 50 Days
Perseverance has snapped tens of thousands of images, performed geology via laser, and successfully protected a helicopter. And the mission is only just beginning.
How to Watch NASA Livestreams As Mars Helicopter Attempts First Flight
NASA hopes the helicopter will demonstrate powered, controlled flight on another planet for the first time.
Fact Check: Did NASA's Perseverance Rover Photograph a Mars Rainbow?
A colorful arc in a photo of the Martian sky is trending on social media, but is it really a rainbow like we'd see on Earth?
How Much Perseverance Weighs As NASA Mars Rover Sizes Compared
Perseverance might weigh less on Mars than it does on Earth, but the rover is still hefty and heavier than its predecessors.
Mars Video Shows NASA Helicopter Poking Out of Rover Before First Flight
The space agency hopes ingenuity will make the first powered flight on another world.
How NASA's Mars Curiosity Rover Took a Spectacular Selfie on the Red Planet
The car-sized vehicle has been operating on Mars since 2012.
The Obstacles NASA's Mars Helicopter Faces As First Flight Approaches
The space agency hopes to make history by completing the first ever powered, controlled flight on another planet.
Why Mars Is Called the Red Planet and What Its Atmosphere Is Made Of
Google searches around these questions spiked after a Tiktok video falsely claimed Mars got its color after humans destroyed it in a nuclear war.
America's Renewed Space Ambitions Require Vigilance
While many nations are sending technology and now people into space, none appear to be anywhere close to America's capability to get people to the moon.
Viral Conspiracy Theory Video Claims Humans Destroyed Mars in Nuclear War
The TikTok video, watched almost one million times, claims humans destroyed the red planet's resources in a nuclear war and moved to Earth.
Photo Shows Mars Rover's Ingenuity Helicopter for First Time on Red Planet
Mars helicopter Ingenuity will take part in a test that could be the first-ever demonstration of powered flight on another planet.
Hear NASA's Mars Perseverance Rover Zap Its SuperCam Laser on Red Planet
The recording contains sounds of about 30 impacts, heard in a series of pops or clicks. It is used to identify and classify the structure and make-up of rocks.
Incredible Mars Photos Show Strange 1,100-mile-long Cloud Above a Volcano
The cloud, captured by a camera on a European Space Agency craft, forms above the 12-mile-high Arsia Mons volcano on the Red Planet.
NASA Mars Rover Photo Shows Where Ancient Lake and River May Have Joined
Researchers think the area around the rover's landing site was home to a river delta billions of years ago—making it a promising spot to search for signs of ancient microbial life.
NASA Perseverance Rover Records First-Ever Sound of Wind on Mars
In a video shared by CBS news on Friday, NASA engineer Elizabeth Duffy describes the recording as "awesome," and said the new audio will allow scientists to discover a "whole complete story of Mars."
New Mars Photos Released by China's Probe Two Weeks After NASA Landing
The probe consists of an orbiter, and a rover which will be sent down to the surface of Mars in the coming months.
NASA's Mars Rover Gains Millions of Twitter Followers Since Landing
The account has shared a number of photos taken with the vehicle's camera.
NASA's Live Location Tracker Shows Where Perseverance Rover Is on Mars
Perseverance has not moved from its landing spot yet as NASA scientists have had a lot of checks to do.
New Mars Photos From NASA's Rover Show Red Planet in Stunning Detail
The photos were snapped by the Mastcam-Z camera system, which mission operators describe as the rover's "main eyes."
Spot the Mars Rover Family Portrait Perseverance Took to the Red Planet
The little decal can be seen in some of the images that NASA's rover has beamed back to Earth so far.
Members of NASA's Mars Perseverance Team on the Thrill of Seeing Rover Land
Scientists with the space agency told Newsweek about the intense emotions they felt as they watched the rover land on the Red Planet after traveling nearly 300 million miles.
Viral 'Photo' of Earth, Venus and Jupiter Seen From Mars Is Computer Image
The picture is being shared online following the landing of NASA's Perseverance rover.
Mars 'Virtual Tour' Gives 360 View of Planet From NASA's Perseverance Rover
The panorama was taken by navigational cameras on the Mars rover and "stitched together" from six images after they were beamed back to Earth.