Every year, wildfires in the American West grow more intense, yet aerial firefighting remains hamstrung by a decades-old limitation: aircraft cannot operate safely in darkness or heavy smoke. This ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...