In addition to aiding unmanned missions, NASA sees such drones as acting as scouts for manned missions looking for suitable areas to erect habitats. The video below introduces the Mars concept drone.

The helicopter drone set to make the humankind's first flight on another planet has touched down on Mars, NASA said.

The winning team, Galactic Gearheads, built a lightweight drone weighing 1.7 kilograms, well within the 2 kg limit set by ISRO.

We already know that drones are useful for investigating hard-to-reach areas of Earth, but they could also be essential for exploring other planets. Engineers at NASA's Langley research center are ...

Pune: Students of Pune Institute of Computer Technology (PICT), who built a drone that could operate in a GPS-denied ...

NASA's Ingenuity helicopter has surpassed all expectations during its time on Mars and just recently it set a new flight record.

drone and rover prototypes undergoing testing in Iceland this summer had to endure a gusty environment somewhat akin to the fictional storm in the 2016 movie.

Drones would have to be able to fly autonomously, because there's a several-minute round trip between the time a command is issued on Earth and when it is received on Mars.

Drones, and autonomous helicopters in particular, seem to be quite the buzzing technology these days. But could they be headed to Mars, too?

The images show the historic first flight of the Ingenuity drone, recorded by the nearby ground-based Perseverance rover.