A winter car crash on a lonely Adirondack road with no cell signal becomes a real-world test of satellite communication.

Today, the signal is casually tossed into texts during dating disasters or outfit emergencies, but its roots come from genuine life-or-death situations at sea. SOS entered official use in 1905 under ...

For over two decades, millions of people volunteered the computational capacity of their computers to help UC Berkeley scientists in their search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI). The goal of ...

After two decades of quiet data processing on millions of crowd-sourced home computers, the SETI@home project has narrowed down billions of space whispers to 100 signals. Could one of these point to ...

Thousands of Verizon customers reported experiencing a data outage over the past 24 hours. This prevents users from making phone calls and browsing on cellular networks. While Verizon has resolved the ...

Nearly 170,000 Verizon customers reported outages on Jan. 14. According to Downdetector, 169,066 users had logged issues as of 11:50 a.m. The real‑time tracking site shows that 62% of customers are ...

WASHINGTON — Numerous Verizon customers across the U.S. experienced a service outage Wednesday that left many iPhones in "SOS mode." More than 170,000 customers reported issues with their cell service ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. One of the largest searches for alien intelligence in history is nearing completion, thanks to the help of more than 2 million ...

The man's GPS activation device sent his location out to officials via satellite and played a key role in finding him, officers said A 19-year-old hiker was rescued in “heavy storm” conditions in ...

The 19-year-old hiker was rescued from "heavy storm" conditions in Northern California Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office A 19-year-old solo male hiker was showing signs of hypothermia when he was ...

A 19-year-old solo male hiker was showing signs of hypothermia when he was rescued in stormy conditions, officials said The entire rescue mission took around seven hours, deputies said The man's GPS ...