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 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 ...

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), ...

Deep space navigation is going old-school. The International Space Station resupply mission that blasted off from NASA's Wallops Flight Facility in the predawn hours of May 21 carried high-tech ...

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 ...

This requires spacecraft to wait for navigation commands from Earth rather than making those decisions on board and in real-time. “Navigating in deep space requires measuring vast distances using our ...

NASA is set to launch an incredible new atomic clock into orbit on a Falcon Heavy today (June 24) in a technology demonstration mission that could transform the way humans explore space.

In Deep Space, Astronauts Will Use Celestial Navigation Like Columbus and Drake Just because we're building the technology for space travel doesn't mean we won't get lost. by Neel V. Patel ...