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

With its beautiful rings, Saturn may be the most stunning planet in the solar system. It is the sixth planet from the sun and ...

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

When a planet's orbit brings it between Earth and a distant star, it's more than just a cosmic game of hide and seek. It's an ...

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).

If Earth had massive rings like Saturn, our sky, weather, tides, and even life could be dramatically different. Scientists explore how stunning—and strange—our world would become under shimmering ...

Space exploration missions have revealed that polar vortices aren’t uncommon beyond Earth. They’ve been observed throughout ...

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 ...

ELVIS, a new holographic microscope developed at Portland State University, could help advance efforts to look for life on other worlds.

The Hubble Space Telescope marks its 35th anniversary with a stunning new image of the Sombrero Galaxy. This detailed view ...