"When running an accident investigation from 100 million miles away, you don't have any black boxes!" NASA's Håvard Grip said ...

Relying on remote data, including photographs taken after the flight, the investigators believe that “navigation errors ...

Engineers now say they understand the most likely cause of the Ingenuity helicopter's crash landing on Mars earlier this year ...

NASA's Ingenuity helicopter, which landed on Mars in 2021 alongside the Perseverance rover, crashed during its 72nd flight on ...

Even in death, NASA's Ingenuity helicopter is helping us learn about Mars. The small aircraft met the demise of its main ...

Imagine how much more difficult it would be to diagnose a helicopter accident that took place 69 million miles away with none ...

NASA has made history by conducting the first-ever aircraft accident investigation on another planet. The focus of the ...

Ingenuity ultimately operated for nearly three years and performed 72 flights over that span. On its final flight, the helicopter climbed to 40 feet (12 meters) above the Martian surface, but after 32 ...

Ingenuity's Flight 72 saw the Mars helicopter perform a 'vertical hop' which was meant to only fly the rotorcraft for a brief ...

In January, the Mars helicopter Ingenuity suddenly crashed after more than 70 flights. NASA now believes it has identified ...

Ingenuity may never fly above the surface of Mars again, but the downed helicopter is otherwise healthy and could serve as a ...

"The damaged blades caused excessive vibration in the rotor system, ripping the remainder of one blade from its root and ...