Gladys Mae West, the quiet mathematician behind the Global Positioning System that now guides everything from ride-hailing ...

Despite lacking a hippocampus entirely—and having diverged from the mammalian lineage roughly 400 million years ago—larval ...

The rise of mobile navigation apps, including Google Maps, Apple Maps, and Waze, made it extremely convenient for any driver to get turn-by-turn directions to a configured destination. Most ...

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket on Jan. 18, 2023, launched a GPS 3 satellite from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida. Credit: SpaceX WASHINGTON — The availability of a new GPS navigation signal for ...

The effort, known as Resilient GPS, or R-GPS, began in 2024 and funded three industry teams to develop designs and early prototypes for alternative navigation satellites. The Space Force confirmed it ...

Cape Canaveral, Florida — SpaceX launched the latest in a series of more powerful Global Positioning System navigation satellites Wednesday, continuing a U.S. Space Force fleet-wide upgrade to provide ...

ANELLO Photonics, the creator of the Silicon Photonics Optical Gyroscope (SiPhOG™) and a leader in solid-state, high-precision inertial navigation systems, today announced it has been selected by the ...

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 ...

The car keys are on the kitchen counter, and your phone's in your pocket, but where's the backpack with your work laptop? GPS trackers have evolved into a go-to tool for keeping organized and linked ...