The Swedish DePIN startup is taking on incumbents like FlightAware and Flightradar24 with a decentralized approach that ...

NEW ORLEANS — Solar sails that allow satellites to glide on the light from the sun could soon become a reality. The ...

How To Train Your Dragon came to theaters just a few months after James Cameron’s Avatar, and this animated film proved that the Titanic director wasn’t the only one who could make stunning 3D ...

Iridium Communications is exploring the potential use of small satellites to demonstrate advanced positioning, navigation and timing (PNT) capabilities. Iridium CEO Matt Desch discussed this ...

Launched into Earth's orbit last June, GOES-19 is the newest addition to NOAA's fleet, equipped with a sensor called the ...

Discover how sea turtles navigate the ocean using their internal GPS and learn about their magnetic field perception.

They don’t actually use satellite GPS for location info, but piggyback on the Bluetooth of nearby devices. You still get tracking info and can see roughly where it is on a map, but you don’t ...

The Pixel phones offer Emergency SOS via satellite, allowing you to contact emergency services when you're out of cellular range. Google will send along your GPS location and emergency contacts.

It's a stressful job being a parent, but having one of the best GPS trackers for kids can at ... It has a 1.2-inch color touch screen with a friendly animated monkey that accompanies the time ...

In August 2022, T-Mobile and SpaceX announced a bold plan to expand cellular connectivity across the US with the help of low-orbit satellites. Fast-forward to 2025, and the T-Mobile Starlink ...

Image credit: Tom Nizol. Recently, Jeju produced an impressive vortex street, captured by the Japanese Himawari satellite. Below is an animation of that event, the island is located at the top of ...

Regina G. Barber is a co-host of Short Wave, NPR's science podcast. Barber completed her PhD in physics at Washington State University with a focus in astrophysics, studying globular cluster systems.