For people, matching what they see on the ground to a map is second nature. For computers, it has been a major challenge. A ...

Autonomous free-flying robots aboard the International Space Station (ISS) frequently lose their bearings. Without gravity to distinguish up from down, even precision sensors suffer from accumulating ...

Dec. 1 (UPI) --Arianespace on Monday launched a Vega C, sending South Korea's KOMPSAT-7 satellite into Earth orbit, the sixth flight by the French-based company this year. The rocket lifted off at ...

The first private space science satellite set to study the effect of flares from stars has been launched into space and is now in orbit, the company behind it has said. Blue Skies Space, a space ...

Astronomers have spotted an intriguing cluster of objects in the Kuiper belt, the enormous, donut-shaped region of icy objects beyond the orbit of Neptune. This latest “inner kernel” was identified by ...

The Kuiper belt, a disc of icy rocks on the outermost edges of the solar system, seems to have more structure than we thought. In 2011, researchers found a cluster of objects there on similar orbits ...

3I/ATLAS is surrounded by “a complex jet structure,” new images show, sparking fresh speculation that the Manhattan-sized interstellar object could be an artificial alien craft. The images, captured ...

Apple is working on a series of new satellite connectivity features for the iPhone, Bloomberg's Mark Gurman reports. In this week's "Power On" newsletter, Gurman revealed that the new features in ...

Quantinuum, the $10 billion firm that’s become one of the biggest players in quantum computing, unveiled its latest computer Wednesday. The Helios machine represents an important leap in terms of ...

Researchers at Google Quantum AI have used their Willow quantum computer to help interpret data from Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) spectroscopy, a mainstay of chemistry and biology research. The ...

U.S. Army units have begun receiving updated navigational hardware known as the Mounted Assured Positioning, Navigation and Timing System (MAPS) GEN II, service officials announced. The new system ...

Our everyday GPS struggles in “urban canyons,” where skyscrapers bounce satellite signals, confusing even advanced navigation systems. NTNU scientists created SmartNav, combining satellite corrections ...