After nearly three years of exploration, NASA grounded the Ingenuity in 2024. Learn why this small craft made such a huge ...

During this final gathering, the team received a farewell message from Ingenuity featuring the names of people who worked on the mission. Mission controllers at JPL sent the message to Perseverance ...

See images from the Perseverance rover and diagrams from NASA that explain what happened during Ingenuity's final moments.

On Friday, NASA celebrates one year of successful operation of its most technically advanced Martian explorer, the Perseverance rover — and its Ingenuity helicopter companion. Halfway through its ...

Mars helicopter Ingenuity appears to be missing rotor blades in Perseverance rover imagery captured. The rover's SuperCam ...

A featureless stretch of terrain confused the helicopter’s navigation system resulting in a hard landing that snapped its rotor blades. A featureless stretch of terrain confused the helicopter’s ...

NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter, right, stands near the apex of a sand ripple in an image taken by Perseverance on Feb. 24, 2024, about five weeks after the rotorcraft’s final flight. Part of one of ...

The otherworldly helicopter, with its 36 blades, is the size of an SUV—a major upgrade from Ingenuity's four blades. Reading time 2 minutes Almost a year after Ingenuity broke a blade and ended its ...

Just days after NASA's Perseverance rover gently dropped the Ingenuity helicopter on the surface of Mars, the robot companions took a selfie together on Tuesday and beamed it back to Earth. The rover ...

Nearly a year after NASA's Ingenuity helicopter crash landed on Mars following an extended, remarkably successful mission, engineers have determined the most likely culprit: Flight over sand drifts so ...

This NASA photo shows NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter achieves powered, controlled flight for the first time on another planet – Copyright AFP PRAKASH MATHEMA ...

It's time for a little game of I Spy on Mars. The Ingenuity Mars helicopter in the last week has aced all three of its planned test flights so far, with each one a little longer, farther and faster ...