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 ...

NASA Perseverance rover's Mastcam-Z captured the Ingenuity helicopter's 54th flight on Mars. A camera onboard Ingenuity snapped a mid-air view of the rover. Credit: Space.com | footage courtesy: NASA/ ...

JPL believes the Chopper could be the ideal way to get powerful scientific instruments into areas rovers would be unable to access. Ingenuity was tethered to Perseverance for communication, but the ...

On Mercury, craters are named after “artists, musicians, painters and authors who have made outstanding or fundamental ...

Two coronal mass ejections (CMEs) struck Earth’s magnetic field on New Year’s Eve, bringing out the displays of light in the ...

After a spectacular 2024, which featured a year of wonder in the skies, including a total solar eclipse and rare sightings of the northern lights, 2025 is set to bring even more astronomical events.

Under clear skies, a “planet parade” should be visible in Ontario and beyond this month. Four planets — Venus, Saturn, Jupiter and Mars — should appear in the night sky for the first couple of hours ...

The New Year arrives with a meteor shower in January, the Quadrantids. Find out when and where to see the Quadrantid meteor ...

A ’planetary parade’ is a rare celestial event which looks as if all the planets, have been aligned on a single line, very ...

On this date, Jan. 2, 1959, the Soviet Union launched Luna 1. The probe would pass within 3,725.5 miles of the moon but did ...

The self-built La Canada float for the 136th Rose Parade answers the question: Can a float run on battery-electric power?

NASA has revealed the Mars Chopper, an advanced aerial vehicle designed to take Mars exploration to new heights. This ...