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 ...

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 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.

As NASA prepares to return to the Moon in the next couple of years and possibly even establish bases, it needs a better understanding of how the human body performs in such an inhospitable habitat ...

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 ...

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.

Explorers trudged the Atlantic Ocean searching for World War II artifacts, but they stumbled on something else — a 20-foot-long piece of debris from the Space Shuttle Challenger, which was ...

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 ...