The first flight of the Preliminary Research Aerodynamic Design to Lower Drag, or Prandtl-D No. 3, completed a set of flight tests on Oct. 28. Flying from NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in ...

As increasing numbers of people focus on reaching the red planet, the journey to Mars is getting closer by the day. Now a prototype of a new aircraft has officially been flown, bringing it a step ...

NASA has teamed up with community college students to create a small, unmanned and engine-free glider that may one day become the first airplane to soar through the Martian atmosphere. The Preliminary ...

A remotely piloted aircraft achieved an important research milestone last month when a subscale "flying wing" glider successfully completed a series of flight tests. The remotely piloted glider ...

A tiny aircraft could be plying Mars' skies less than a decade from now. NASA researchers are developing a glider, called Preliminary Research Aerodynamic Design to Land on Mars (Prandtl-m), for ...

If a NASA experimental program pans out, the first aircraft on Mars could be a flying wing. Under development at NASA Armstrong, the Prandtl–m is a flying wing glider designed to fly piggyback with a ...

Take a peek at the possible future of flight on Mars with the Prandtl-m, a prototype aircraft scheduled for testing on Earth. Freelance writer Amanda C. Kooser covers gadgets and tech news with a ...

This illustration shows what a Prandtl-m might look like flying above the surface of Mars. NASA Illustration/Dennis Calaba NASA announced Tuesday that it is building a prototype for a glider that ...

No, you're not looking at a very sophisticated boomerang -- that may be the first aircraft to fly the Martian skies. NASA has revealed that it's building a prototype for Prandtl-m (Preliminary ...

NASA is hoping to one day fly a plane or glider on Mars amid the ongoing success of the Ingenuity helicopter. Development of some kind of Mars plane has been continuing for several years with the ...

NASA Armstrong's Prandtl-D No. 3 research aircraft made its first flight on Oct. 28, 2015.