One of the earliest radio navigation systems was Radio Direction Finding (RDF). Introduced in the 1920s, RDF allowed pilots ...

As much as I love the hands-on engagement and rewards of using old-school, tried-and-true navigation tools like magnetic ...

Magic Earth, the app whose main selling point is how it protects users' privacy, has just announced another significant ...

Anschütz has claimed a new benchmark in naval navigation with its SYNAPSIS WECDIS NX, a system with a powerful mix of ...

Ancient magnetic fossils reveal that animal navigation using Earth’s magnetic field may have evolved far earlier than ...

From a childhood and young adulthood in segregation, West excelled academically and eventually helped model the Earth’s shape.

SpaceX launched an advanced, jam-resistant GPS satellite for the U.S. Space Force from Florida on Tuesday night (Jan. 27).

TrustPoint's low Earth orbit navigation system ground station. Credit: TrustPoint WASHINGTON — TrustPoint, a Virginia-based startup developing a network of navigation satellites in low Earth orbit, ...

First published in 2007, the World Digital Magnetic Anomaly Map is an example of publicly available magnetic field maps that can be used for navigation. Credit: International Association of ...

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 ...

The rise of GPS vulnerability is putting more resilient, atom-based navigational tools on the map. In late September, a Spanish military plane carrying the country’s defense minister to a base in ...

As they say, Big Brother is always watching. For this generation, long after the George Orwell novel was written, that phrase can be used to describe Google. We use Google in our daily lives for ...