NASA hit a snag last year when the Ingenuity Mars helicopter crashed on the Red Planet. The space agency concluded that the crash was caused by the vehicle's inability to discern flat ground from ...

NASA is denying any connection to the mysterious drone sightings in New Jersey that have gripped social media and sparked a range of speculation amid assurances from government officials that there's ...

NASA is continually developing next-generation technologies to explore Mars, and a recent study conducted in Death Valley sheds light on how these innovations are tested on Earth. A team from NASA’s ...

It’s always good news when we hear about NASA’s “out-of-this-world” next steps toward building a replacement for Ingenuity, the small Mars helicopter-drone. With 72 flights over 1,004 days, Ingenuity ...

On the face of it, NASA's newest probe sounds incredible. Known as Dragonfly, it is a dual-rotor quadcopter (technically an octocopter, even more technically an X8 octocopter); it's roughly the size ...

NASA is quietly racing to close a dangerous gap in its launch security, warning that Kennedy Space Center needs a dedicated system to spot drones before one wanders into the wrong airspace at the ...

In brief: Saturn's largest moon, Titan, is a promising candidate for extraterrestrial life. NASA may be sending a "Dragonfly" drone to explore Titan's surface. With its vast oceans and methane-filled ...

NASA is testing next-generation Mars drone tech in a place a lot like the Red Planet - California’s Mojave Desert in Death Valley National Park. They flew three research drones over the barren, ...

NASA plans to send an unmanned drone to Titan, Saturn’s largest moon. Titan resembles an early Earth in several ways, containing a thick atmosphere, liquid lakes and rivers on its surface, and an ...

NASA's RAM-AO Working Group meets March 3–5 at Ames to advance autonomous multi-aircraft UAS operations and is seeking new members.