Iran’s control of the Strait of Hormuz has created chaos in the global economy and has become the most urgent problem facing Donald Trump and Israel as they prosecute their war against Tehran. Iranian ...

The war in Iran has dominated headlines with reports of airstrikes and escalating military activity. But beyond the immediate devastation, the conflict has also illuminated a quieter and rapidly ...

People on social media have reported strange events on delivery and navigation apps—drivers appear to be in the middle of the sea, or a 10-minute trip home suddenly jumps up to 30 minutes. For ...

Navigation technology such as GPS has become a key part of everyday life. It helps airplanes fly safely, guides ships at sea, and even powers navigation apps on smartphones. But a growing threat ...

Pentagon weapons testing at eight U.S. bases, including Fort Hood, could be disrupting satellite navigation signals across 800-mile swaths of Texas and other states. The “interference testing” of ...

The term "GPS" has become ubiquitous in American life. You know it as the foundational technology of navigation apps like Google Maps and Waze, but in most of the world, GPS is just a meaningless trio ...

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Space Force has ended an exploratory effort to add smaller, lower-cost navigation satellites to bolster the Global Positioning System, shelving a program that had been identified ...

The pilots flying into Denver International Airport could tell something was wrong. In urgent calls to air traffic controllers, they reported that the Global Positioning System was going haywire, ...

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 ...

Uber has deactivated some drivers' accounts for manipulating their GPS location. Some of them say that they never did that. Deactivations, often sudden and with limited chance to appeal, are common in ...

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen was flying into Bulgaria when her plane's GPS system was jammed in a suspected Russian operation, forcing pilots to rely on backup navigation and old ...