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A McGill University student cracked open a rock in Alberta's Dinosaur Provincial Park and found a 75-million-year-old dragonfly wing so unique that scientists created an entirely new family to classify it. The discovery doubles the insect fossil record for one of Earth's most studied dinosaur sites.
In 2028, NASA will launch Dragonfly, a nuclear-powered helicopter the size of a car, to explore Titan's methane lakes and search for signs of life. The mission represents humanity's most ambitious attempt yet to answer whether we're alone in the universe.
Scientists just figured out why spacecraft heat shields behave differently on various planets, a breakthrough that could help NASA's Dragonfly mission safely land on Saturn's moon Titan. The finding changes how we protect spacecraft entering alien atmospheres.
Researchers discovered that Earth's landscapes hold surprising clues to understanding Titan, Saturn's mysterious moon, paving the way for NASA's 2036 mission. The breakthrough could help us explore one of the solar system's most Earth-like worlds. #
NASA is building a car-sized flying robot powered by nuclear energy to explore Saturn's moon Titan, a world with slow-motion rain, underground oceans, and the best conditions in our solar system for finding signs of life. Launching in 2028, Dragonfly will cover more ground than any rover in history.
NASA engineers just started building Dragonfly, a car-sized nuclear-powered drone that will fly across Saturn's mysterious moon Titan in search of life's chemical origins. The mission launches in 2028 and represents humanity's boldest attempt yet to explore an alien world by air.
A Kolkata lawyer invested his life savings to transform forgotten Sundarbans land into India's first dragonfly conservation pond. Now it controls mosquitoes naturally, supports biodiversity, and teaches thousands of children about living ecosystems.
NASA is sending a car-sized helicopter to Saturn's moon Titan in 2028, and it will start flying before it even touches the ground. The Dragonfly mission will explore one of the most mysterious worlds in our solar system when it arrives in 2034. ---
Engineers successfully tested the rotors that will power NASA's car-sized Dragonfly rotorcraft on Saturn's moon Titan, bringing humanity closer to exploring an alien world. The groundbreaking mission will launch in 2028 and arrive at Titan in 2034.