American space agency NASA announced it found a new way to allow the Perseverance rover to determine its position on Mars by itself.

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From a childhood and young adulthood in segregation, West excelled academically and eventually helped model the Earth’s shape. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

As a young girl in the Jim Crow-era South, Gladys West passed the time counting fenceposts, dreaming of life beyond her family farm south of Richmond. Each day, she walked three miles to a segregated ...

Liftoff of the GPS III-SV09 mission occurred at 11:53 p.m. ET on Tuesday (Jan. 27). When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Breaking ...

For decades, multinational companies treated localization as a surface-layer adjustment. They tweaked marketing, packaging, or pricing to suit regional tastes. But in today’s fractured world, such ...

RICHMOND, Va. — Dr. Gladys West, the mathematician whose groundbreaking work made GPS possible, has died at the age of 95. West passed away over the weekend surrounded by family and friends. Born on a ...

Dr. Gladys West during her induction into the Air Force Space and Missile Pioneers Hall of Fame, 2018. (Adrian Cadiz/Air Force) Gladys Mae West, whose mathematical work became the integral foundation ...

Pioneering mathematician Dr. Gladys West has passed away at the age of 95. Her name may not be familiar to you, but her contributions certainly are; West's work laid the foundation for the global ...

Fareed is joined by Council on Foreign Relations President Emeritus Richard Haass and Anne-Marie Slaughter, CEO of the think tank New America. They discuss the Trump administration’s threats to annex ...

In September 2025, a Widerøe Airlines flight was trying to land in Vardø, Norway, which sits in the country’s far eastern arm, some 40 miles from the Russian coast. The cloud deck was low, and so was ...