Icarus In Greek mythology, the son of Daedalus, architect of the labyrinth for Minos of Crete. Daedalus made wings of feathers and wax in order to escape to the mainland, and was successful. Icarus, however, flew too near the Sun, which melted his wings, and he fell into the sea and drowned.

Icarus in Greek mythology, the son of Daedalus, who escaped from Crete using wings made by his father but was killed when he flew too near the sun and the wax attaching his wings melted so that he fell into the sea, and was drowned. Icarus is used allusively to denote someone who is over-ambitious in their aspirations.

Icarus A solar system asteroid (No. 1566), diameter 1.4 km; approximate mass 10¹² kg; rotational period 2.273 hours; orbital period 1.12 years. Its highly eccentric orbit crosses the orbit of Earth.