"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 ...

Experts at NASA have claimed that the car-size rotorcraft Dragonfly has passed its review and is ready to head to Titan, ...

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 ...

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

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).

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 ...