Unlike today’s turn-by-turn navigation, a 16th-century GPS might have been all about survival: avoiding bandit-prone roads, timing tides for river crossings, or tracking stars as backup.

A key geospatial intelligence firm on Tuesday announced a new product that can operate drones even in areas where the GPS signal has been jammed - cutting through modern defenses in the age of ...

Ever wonder how the Global Positioning System (GPS) works? This extraordinarily complex system is actually based on some simple concepts. Find out what they are in this Shockwave game.

The Global Positioning System (GPS) is the satellite array you’ll likely be most familiar with, as the US government’s system has become synonymous with tracking location for activity.

Europe operates its own constellation of global positioning satellites ... The Galileo system provides additional redundancy and independence from American GPS and Russian GLONASS satellites ...