Might a nuclear-powered flying laboratory crack the code of how life began on a moon that is almost a billion miles away? Following several years of budget volatility and changing schedules, NASA’s ...

This is a challenging mission for a number of reasons, beginning with getting down to the surface. Because Titan has a thick atmosphere, it will take about 90 minutes for the spacecraft to descend.

In its latest update, NASA reports that Dragonfly, a nuclear-powered rotorcraft designed to explore Saturn’s moon Titan, has successfully completed a series of critical development tests. These recent ...