CNN — The ocean is full of mysteries that lead to legendary lore. During a recent moonlit harbor excursion, conversation quickly turned to tales of piracy and exploration. A guide shared stories from ...

The Mariana Trench, one of Earth's final frontiers, is a place of many ocean mysteries that even scientists don't know the answers to yet. The area is notoriously difficult for humans to explore. It's ...

The tiny ocean robot that vanished beneath Antarctic ice for most of a year has reappeared with a warning that is as ...

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 Jet ...

For all of humanity's expansion over the last several hundred years, a majority of the ocean floor remains unexplored. While some of this can be chalked up to the fact that some parts of the ocean are ...

The big picture: Exploring the depths of the world's oceans has been an immense challenge – even more difficult than space exploration in some cases. The main issues are the brutal pressure and ...

Out in the depths of space, in our solar system and beyond, there exist a vast variety of worlds. There are gas giant planets bigger than Jupiter, and extremely hot planets that orbit so close to ...

BEIJING, 31 March (BelTA - China Daily) - A team of Chinese scientists has developed a miniature 2.7-kilogram deep-sea robot to explore the deepest natural frontier on Earth — the Mariana Trench in ...

How can researchers explore the depths of ocean worlds like Jupiter’s moon, Europa? This is what the Sensing With Independent Micro-swimmers (SWIM) robotic explorers hopes to address as scientists and ...

The next machine to explore alien worlds may slither rather than roll. NASA is currently testing a snake-like robot that its engineers hope will one day be deployed into the oceans of Saturn’s moon ...