China’s next Mars explorer is not a rover that crawls or a helicopter that hovers, but a hybrid drone that can roll across the ground and then leap into the thin air when terrain turns hostile. By ...

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 ...

Uncrewed collaborative combat aircraft (UCCA) are intended to serve as ‘loyal wingmen' to crewed fighters.

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 ...