Abstract: Autonomous underwater vehicles (AUV) play an important role in the process of human exploration of the ocean. However, the existing AUV control methods are faced with the problem of ...

This repository provides code and workflows to test several state-of-the-art vehicle detection deep learning algorithms —including YOLOX, SalsaNext, RandLA-Net, and VoxelRCNN— on a Flash Lidar dataset ...

As demand for critical minerals surges around the world, countries are debating whether to mine the untapped deep-sea reserves of cobalt, copper and manganese, miles below the surface. But a growing ...

We took everyday items from ping-pong balls to soda cans and let the ocean decide their fate. The deeper we went, the more brutal the pressure got. Science, chaos, and a few crushed egos later, we ...

On the left is a non-Earth satellite image of TRACERS-2, a spacecraft that is part of a NASA mission to study how the Sun's energy interacts with Earth's magnetic field, collected in August 2025.

Figure 1. Experimental setup showing the center structure (left) carrying the stereo video system and the Ping360 sonar, the six different shape (small cylinder, cube, and big cylinder) and color ...

Scientists using a global array of radio telescopes have detected the universe’s lowest-mass dark object by observing how it warped light through gravitational lensing. The invisible mass, about a ...

Demi Lovato enlisted some celebrity friends to help her unveil the track list for her new album, It’s Not That Deep. On Friday, the pop star shared a carousel of photos from Mistr’s National Day of ...

In this episode of Newsmaker, FOX 10's John Hook speaks with Harvard physicist Avi Loeb about a fast-moving comet, 3I/ATLAS, that is approaching Earth. The object was first reported in July. Thousands ...

A transmit antenna at Site 1 of the Deep-Space Advanced Radar Capability (DARC) in Western Australia is shown at night. Credit: Doug Humphries, BAE Systems WASHINGTON — A new deep-space radar site in ...

In astronomy, larger distances are both a blessing and a curse. They can cause issues like longer communication times, which also requires more powerful equipment, and positioning uncertainty that can ...

Trans-Neptunian objects (TNO) are some of our solar system's lesser-known objects. They number in the thousands, and they get their name from their orbits. These dwarf planets orbit the sun at a ...