A deep-diving robot exploring the depths of the world's deepest water-filled sinkhole has found an amazing diversity of microbial life, even down where sunlight can't reach. The discovery re-affirms ...

WASHINGTON – In late May, a NASA-funded robot successfully navigated one of the world’s deepest sinkholes. The mission could be a prelude to a future mission to Jupiter’s moon Europa, believed to ...

In May, researchers successfully conducted the third and final field test of the autonomous underwater robot, DEPTHX. Their objective was to explore Cenote Zacaton, the world’s deepest water-filled ...

Three months ago, I mentioned DEPTHX, a robot built to explore deep water in Mexico. Now, scientists from the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) and NASA are working on a reengineered version of ...

A robotic submarineusing technology that could one day help explore Jupiter's moon Europa hasreached the bottom of a Mexican sinkhole, navigating, mapping and collecting samples without direct human ...

AUSTIN, Texas -- Scientists return this week to the world’s deepest known sinkhole, Cenote Zacatón in Mexico, to resume tests of a NASA-funded robot called DEPTHX, designed to survey and explore for ...

The DEPTHX project is part of NASA’s Astrobiology Science and Technology for Exploring Planets (ASTEP) program. Its prime directive is to research and develop science and technology for the ...

AUSTIN, Texas—Scientists this week begin the final leg of a five-year, NASA-funded mission to reach the bottom of Cenote Zacatón in Mexico, the world's deepest known sinkhole. No one has ever reached ...

A completely untethered, autonomous underwater diving robot launches a mission this week to collect samples from a 400-foot-deep geothermal sinkhole in Mexico. In a departure from other submersibles ...

It's robotic,aquatic and ramping up for a long, deep dive, all to test technology that couldone day allow its autonomous descendants plunging into alien waters believed tosit beneath the icy crust of ...

Scientists return this week to the world's deepest known sinkhole for tests of a NASA-funded robot called DEPTHX, designed to survey and explore for life in one of Earth's most extreme regions and ...