The US Navy wants to mix uncrewed underwater vehicles into its submarine forces. A commander said it's taking a "SpaceX approach" to testing, getting systems out quickly to see what works. The ...

The U.S. Navy has canceled a variant of its Razorback uncrewed underwater vehicle (UUV) designed to be launched and recovered via a standard submarine torpedo tube. The decision prompts questions ...

Submarines began navigating the depths before the 1900s, and they've advanced considerably in all that time. Modern military subs are stealthy, nearly silent killers roaming below the waves, and the U ...

Unlike large vessels traveling on the ocean's surface or most other vehicles on the planet, military submarines do not have windows. A submarine's commander can't tell their helmsman to hang a right ...

In September of 2021, a Russian expedition searching for radioactive waste pinpointed the exact location of the reactor ...

Deep-sea vehicles revealed detailed images of the USS F-1 submarine wreck. The expedition also honored lost sailors and trained future scientists. A recent deep-sea training and engineering mission ...

Engineers have taught a simple submarine robot to take advantage of turbulent forces to propel itself through water. Small autonomous underwater vehicles, like the drones of the sea, could be very ...

Today, the German research vessel SONNE will embark on an expedition off the coast of New Zealand. Under the leadership of Kiel University (CAU), researchers from CAU and the GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre ...

Polar historian, naturalist, and submarine pilot Seb Coulthard on the transformative power of expeditionary travel.

Maritime experts on an expedition around the Solomon Islands in the South Pacific recently explored the wreckage of the USS Laffey, a destroyer sunk during a pivotal series of battles in World War II.

An underwater volcano off the coast of Oregon is gearing up for an eruption, according to scientists who are monitoring for ...