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

The Dragonfly quadcopter will soar through Titan’s hazy skies and roam its dune seas in search of evidence that the distant ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

Titan, Saturn’s largest moon, has long intrigued scientists due to its nitrogen-rich atmosphere, methane lakes, and complex ...

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

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

"There has been this sense that because Titan has such abundant organics, there is no shortage of food sources that could sustain life," Affholder said. "Not all of these organic molecules may ...

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).