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

The European Space Agency (ESA) successfully established a transmission-reception optical link with NASA's Deep Space Optical ...

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

“This pioneering interstellar navigation demonstration and its accompanying publication show that a deep-space mission can ...

The European Space Agency (ESA) has marked a historic milestone by establishing the first time ever optical communication link with a European Ground Segment with a spacecraft in deep space. The link ...

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

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

Space agencies are working to put satellite navigation, or satnav, on rockets traveling the 239,000 miles between Earth and the moon. They're also planning to build a whole new navigation network ...

The Deep Space Network is aging and needs to be replaced. Our ability to travel to Mars will depend on a reliable communications system. Can lasers do the trick?

A recent image taken by the James Webb Space Telescope shows what appears to be a “question mark” in deep space. (Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, J. DePasquale (STScI), CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO) ...