Dragonfly, NASA's nuclear-powered rotorcraft-in-progress, has cleared a pivotal checkpoint, the agency announced Thursday. Dragonfly's critical design review—required for all of NASA's unmanned ...

Dragonfly integration and testing—the activities involved in assembling the mission's rotorcraft lander and testing it for the rigors of launch and extreme conditions of space—is officially underway ...

Engineers at NASA have now initiated the integration and testing phase for the Dragonfly mission’s rotorcraft lander. The radioisotope-powered spacecraft is scheduled to launch around 2028 on a ...

Titan, the largest moon of Saturn, is the only known moon that contains its own atmosphere denser than Earth's, and is the only known object in space other than Earth that contains stable liquids on ...

What potential signs of life could exist on Saturn’s largest moon, Titan? This is what NASA’s upcoming Dragonfly mission hopes to address as this rotorcraft recently advanced past its Critical Design ...

At Sandia National Laboratories’ National Solar Thermal Test Facility, engineers helped NASA prepare for that critical phase ...

Dragonfly's heat shield will be responsible for ensuring the safety of the NASA rotorcraft as it makes its way through ...

On Episode 198 of This Week In Space, Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik talk with Principal Investigator Dr. Elizabeth "Zibi" Turtle about the Dragonfly mission, its origins, progress and what to expect in the ...