Military leaders have been warning of the fragility of GPS for years and researchers have been working on a variety of solutions, from quantum clocks to inertial navigation. The Air Force is adding a ...

Members of the 2nd Space Operations Squadron (2 SOPS) deployed a novel tool to Afghanistan last month, giving warfighters the ability to combine Global Positioning System (GPS) capabilities with ...

Google Maps remains one of the best navigation apps thanks to its detailed mapping, real-time traffic information, Google Assistant integration, public transit routes, cycle travel modes, and robust ...

In about every five years, the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and the British Geological Survey update the World Magnetic Model (WMM). However, the latest update is quite ...

Engineering researchers have developed a method to use signals broadcast by Starlink internet service satellites to accurately locate a position here on Earth, much like GPS does. It is the first time ...

The U.S. Air Force, concerned that adversaries might target its fleet of GPS satellites in wartime, is looking into Earth’s magnetic field as an alternative, according to Defense One.Accurate and ...

While state-of-the-art navigation has become a must-have these days, not everybody is a big fan of Google Maps, so stand-alone GPS units like those from Garmin still have a very successful niche of ...

Update: Blue Ghost landed on the moon. Firefly's Blue Ghost lander touched down on the lunar surface early Sunday and one of the experiments mounted onboard will try to do something almost ...

Even if everything navigation is pointing in the direction of GPS, you'll never tear some folks away from their paper maps. In Northern New Jersey, Stephanie Kivett Ohnegian keeps an atlas in her car ...

Earth’s magnetic bubble, the invisible shield that normally deflects charged particles from the Sun, briefly shrank to a fraction of its usual size during a recent superstorm, exposing satellites and ...

GPS is the best technology for tracking the location and movement of any object anywhere in the world. GPS stands for “Global Positioning System,” and refers to a worldwide network of satellites, ...