"Passing this mission milestone means that Dragonfly's mission design, fabrication, integration and test plans are all ...

About 800 million miles (1.2 billion kilometers) from Earth lies cloud-cloaked Titan, largest of Saturn's 146-strong retinue ...

NASA’s groundbreaking Dragonfly mission is one step closer to its 2028 launch after successfully passing its Critical Design ...

Dragonfly, NASA's nuclear-powered rotorcraft-in-progress, has cleared a pivotal checkpoint, the agency announced Thursday.

Their results, published in The Planetary Science Journal, show that Titan could, in theory, support life, but only in tiny ...

NASA says Titan will hop from one location to another, with one jump lasting a full Titan day, which is equivalent to 16 Earth days. This moon of Saturn is said to harbour oceans filled with methane ...

The Johns Hopkins APL-led team working on the first rotorcraft designed for scientific exploration on another ocean world has passed its Critical Design Review, a major milestone confirming that ...

Credit: NASA HOUSTON—Dragonfly, a challenging and costly NASA mission to launch a drone rotocopter to Saturn’s large moon Titan, has completed the agency’s critical design review (CDR).

There are seas, lakes, and rivers on Saturn's moon Titan. However, with a few exceptions, no river deltas exist. That's not ...

With its beautiful rings, Saturn may be the most stunning planet in the solar system. It is the sixth planet from the sun and ...

NASA's pioneering Dragonfly mission has cleared a key hurdle, keeping it on track for a 2028 launch to Saturn's huge moon Titan. Dragonfly, a car-sized, nuclear-powered rotorcraft designed to ...