NASA's eight-rotor Dragonfly drone just finished a crucial test, which confirmed the spacecraft's design and will allow the ...

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

NASA's Dragonfly mission, launching in 2028, will explore Titan with a nuclear-powered rotorcraft to search for signs of ...

What potential signs of life could exist on Saturn’s largest moon, Titan? This is what NASA’s upcoming Dragonfly mission ...

Evaporation, condensation, precipitation on my mind. This is the (methane?!) cycle, and it happens all the time! 🎶 Webb provided evidence for cloud convection on Saturn’s moon Titan, the only other ...

Artist's concept of Dragonfly. 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 ...

NASA/SwRI A new NASA mission is already collecting data and producing striking images of the solar system. Launched in March, the PUNCH (Polarimeter to Unify the Corona and Heliosphere ...

Dragonfly's critical design review—required for all of NASA's unmanned missions—involved a close inspection of the mission's design, fabrication, integration, and test plans, all of which were ...

The Dragonfly project is part of NASA’s New Frontiers program, with a staggering price tag of $3.35 billion (£2,507,775,977.) The nuclear helicopter's main goal is to explore Titan’s surface and ...

In an era of reusable rockets and near-daily access to space, NASA is still paying more than it did 30 years ago to launch ...

Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins APL/Steve Gribben 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 ...