Placing ultrastable lasers inside some of the coldest, darkest lunar craters could help scientists establish a GPS-like ...

No audio available for this content. News from NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center GPS could be used to pilot in and around lunar orbit during future Artemis missions. A team at NASA is developing a ...

NASA has deployed a new laser technology designed to improve the accuracy of Global Positioning System data. The laser retroreflector array or LRA became operational on March 9, 2026, aboard GPS III ...

We all use GPS every day. In fact, if you’re reading this story on your phone, you’re reading it on a GPS receiver. The system works well on Earth, but what if it was used beyond Earth? Well, NASA ...

For the first time, NASA has detected a signal from the Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) nearly 250,000 miles from Earth. The signal was part of the Lunar GNSS Receiver Experiment (LuGRE) ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. NASA and the Italian Space Agency's Lunar GNSS Receiver Experiment succeeded in its first attempt to acquire Earth-based ...

In December 1968, the Apollo 8 mission carried three astronauts on a trip around the Moon— further than anyone had ever gone before. For a mission that far, navigation was the biggest unknown factor.

Three satellites are set to launch aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket Wednesday at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, according to a National Aeronautics and Space Administration press release. The ...

communications satellite on the background of the moon. satellite connection Perhaps the crown jewel of NASA’s near-term roadmap for human space exploration is the Artemis mission: our return-trip to ...

NASA and the Italian Space Agency's Lunar GNSS Receiver Experiment succeeded in its first attempt to acquire Earth-based navigation signals from the moon on March 3, 2025. Credit: NASA / Dave Ryan ...