NASA's eight-rotor Dragonfly drone just finished a crucial test, which confirmed the spacecraft's design and will allow the project to move forward with full-scale fabrication of the spacecraft ...

Whereas Ingenuity features a single rotor and a height of just 19.3 inches, Dragonfly has eight rotors and is the size of a small car. A team of researchers led by the Johns Hopkins University ...

NASA has been given the go-ahead to send a flying drone-like lander to explore Titan, the largest of Saturn’s 146 moons, in a mission that will launch in July 2028.

NASA is sending a helicopter-style drone to Saturn’s largest moon, Titan, on its hunt for alien life. Using propellers, the spacecraft Dragonfly will fly and land on several spots on the icy … ...

"With Dragonfly, we're turning science fiction into exploration fact." Testing is now underway on NASA's Dragonfly rotorcraft, a nuclear-powered, car-sized aerial drone that will look for ...

Testing for NASA's Dragonfly mission is underway as engineers get the aerial rotorcraft ready for its anticipated 2027 departure to explore Saturn's moon, Titan.

One company has decided the ideal tiny drone should take its cues from the natural world of insects -- specifically the dragonfly. When Draper, an independent biomedical solutions lab, set out to ...

"Dragonfly marks the first time NASA will fly a vehicle for science on another planetary body," the government agency said. "The rotorcraft has eight rotors and flies like a large drone." ...

And soon NASA will take that concept one step further by launching a drone mission to explore an even more distant world: Saturn’s icy moon of Titan. The Dragonfly mission is set to explore ...