New Horizons just completed its first successful stellar navigation test in deep space, a groundbreaking moment for ...

NASA’s New Horizons successfully used stellar parallax from deep space to pinpoint its location, pioneering a new method of ...

NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft has successfully demonstrated a revolutionary method for deep space navigation, as the probe ...

By looking at the shifting of stars in photos from the New Horizons probe, astronomers have calculated its position in the ...

NASA's New Horizons spacecraft has successfully conducted the first-ever deep space stellar navigation test, while traversing the Kuiper Belt.

The CAPSTONE™ spacecraft has successfully demonstrated several key technologies for lunar navigation and autonomy, including: ...

Sci-fi authors and screenwriters have long envisioned AI companions helping humans as they explore the cosmos. Sometimes things go well (Commander Data was a friendly and reliable Starfleet officer), ...

NASA is preparing to fly a Deep Space Atomic Clock, or DSAC, demonstration that will revolutionize the way we conduct deep-space navigation by enabling a spacecraft to calculate its own timing and ...

The most precise clock ever flown in space, NASA’s Deep Space Atomic Clock, could improve spacecraft navigation throughout the solar system. This illustration shows the spacecraft carrying the ...

Scientists are working on a way to replace radio-based space navigation with a cosmic GPS that uses pulsars to fix a spaceship within a radius of two kilometers (1.2 mi) at the distance from Earth ...

Deep Space 1 (DS1) was a pioneering spacecraft launched in the late 1990s as part of NASA's New Millennium Program. The primary goal of the spacecraft's mission was to test dozens of new and ...

This kind of precision timing will be needed for future deep space missions. Currently, navigation in space actually requires all of the decisions to be made on Earth.