Point Reyes Lighthouse stands sentinel on the windiest, foggiest stretch of the Pacific Coast, a historic treasure that’s simultaneously accessible yet feels wonderfully remote from the hustle of ...

Tomas shares a lovely Gallet Multichron Yachting ✓ And an amazing two-part story about the adventures of the sailor who owned ...

For just five dollars (yes, the price of a fancy coffee), you can explore one of America’s most significant maritime ...

With GPS increasingly vulnerable to tampering, planes need more reliable navigation systems. The magnetic pull in the Earth’s crust could offer a novel solution.

Daniel Kleppner, Physicist Who Brought Precision to GPS, Dies at 92 He worked to develop an atomic clock that is essential to global positioning systems and helped confirm a rare state of matter ...

Optical quantum clocks developed at the University of Adelaide have been proven to outperform GPS navigation systems by many orders of magnitude. The clocks, which were put through their paces in ...

A satellite known as MethaneSAT, anticipated to transform our view of methane emissions, has lost power less than a year and a half after it was launched. MethaneSAT is “likely not recoverable ...

Private-sector innovation is leading the charge to build resilient PNT systems—ensuring GPS isn’t a single point of failure in our connected future.

SpaceX launched a SiriusXM SXM-10 satellite into orbit from Florida early Saturday after five delays.

Startup Xona Space Systems hopes to provide an unspoofable alternative to increasingly threatened GPS. Later this month, an inconspicuous 150-kilogram satellite is set to launch into space aboard ...

If you think about it, space-based satellites are a pinnacle of human engineering. Above that, some are part of the Global Positioning System (GPS), winning 10 awards for that achievement in ...