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    NASA reveals finalists for next New Frontiers robotic mission: Saturn's moon Titan or Rosetta spacecraft's comet

    by Amina Khan, Los Angeles Times Dec 21, 2017 2 minutes

    The field for NASA's next New Frontiers mission is narrowing. Officials announced the two finalists for a new robotic explorer mission - one that would send a spacecraft to bring samples of the comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko to Earth, and another to explore Saturn's moon Titan.

    The two mission concepts, CAESAR and Dragonfly, detailed in a NASA briefing Wednesday, beat out 10 other proposals

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