NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) at the California Institute of Technology has developed a snake-like robot with a pretty unique mission in mind: searching for life on one of Saturn’s moons.

A snake is set to slither its way to Saturn's moon! In collaboration with Carnegie Mellon University's Robotic Institute, a team of roboticists at the California Institute of Technology's Jet ...

The NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) is testing a snake-like robot with hopes of one day sending it to one of Saturn’s moons in search of life outside of Earth. According to the JPL project’s ...

This new NASA snake robot is designed to find other life in the universe. EELS is tested in the sandy terrain of JPL's Mars Yard in April. Engineers repeatedly test the snake robot across a variety of ...

Despite residing in the frigid outer realm of our solar system where the Sun is just a faraway speck of light, icy moons like Saturn’s Enceladus and Jupiter’s Europa are considered some of the most ...

Icy ocean worlds like Europa or Enceladus are some of the most promising locations for finding extra-terrestrial life in the Solar System because they host liquid water. But to determine if there is ...