PASADENA, Calif. - NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory is in the midst of testing a new robot that it hopes to deploy into outer space to help answer the age-old question of whether life exists away from ...

Is there life outside of Earth? A new snake-like robot could be the one to find out. The Exobiology Extant Life Surveyor (EELS) is being developed by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory for a space ...

The snake robot form factor has existed for decades. In addition to the diversity it adds to the world of automation, the design has several pragmatic attributes. The first is redundancy, which allows ...

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.

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 ...

NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory is testing out a snake-like robot that is meant to one day climb into the icy vents of Saturn’s moon Enceladus and take a dip into its subsurface ocean below to look ...

NASA is working on The Exobiology Extant Life Surveyor (EELS) system, a snake-like robot that would be used to explore the surface of Enceladus, one of Saturn's 83 moons. NASA/JPL-CalTech/SWNS NASA’s ...

UNDATED (WKRC) - The search for life beyond Earth has fascinated minds for ages, and a new snake-like marvel could aid humanity in the quest for answers. Enceladus is one of Saturn's 83 moons, and is ...