NASA recently showed off its new underwater rover that it hopes one day could help in exploring alien ocean worlds in the search for life. The robot, known as Buyant Rover for Under-Ice ...

An underwater volcano in the Pacific Ocean has begun to erupt, NASA images show. Living there: Sharks that can withstand extreme temperatures. Off the coast of the Solomon Islands, about 950 ...

Engineers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory recently tested prototypes of miniature, self-propelled robots designed to ...

In 2017, NASA announced that these ocean worlds may be the best hubs for life in our solar system. “Once we get there we only really know how to detect life similar to that on Earth.

NASA is launching a new project to help it better understand the deepest parts of space, without ever leaving Earth. The announcement, made on Tuesday, is part of the government space agency's ...

NASA tests small underwater robots designed to explore icy moons’ hidden oceans. The prototype called SWIM, which stands for Sensing With Independent Micro-swimmers, was constructed at NASA’s ...

NASA has been tracking Kavachi for some time, taking equally spectacular photos of eruptions in 2007 and 2014. "Sharkcano" got its nickname because of a 2015 expedition, which found sharks and ...

NASA astronauts Stan Love and Steve Bowen test tools and methods for exploring an asteroid in an underwater 'spacewalk' in this still from a NASA video released on May 9, 2014.

NASA’s Grueling Underwater Test for Astronauts. A giant swimming pool is the best place on Earth for simulating weightlessness. By Marina Koren. NASA. November 6, 2019. Share. Save.

If NASA’s underwater practice session is any indication of what a real space mission to an asteroid will be like, you can expect to follow along with the exploration of a near-Earth asteroid via ...

GROTON, Conn. --As NASA contemplates a manned voyage to Mars and the effects missions deeper into space could have on astronauts, it's tapping research from another outfit with experience sending ...