An intense solar eruption recently triggered a rare “severe geomagnetic storm” alert for Earth, with…
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The U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) is the corporate research laboratory for the United States Navy and the United States Marine Corps. Created in 1923, it operates under the Office of Naval Research and conducts a wide array of scientific research, technology development, and advanced engineering addressing the needs and mission requirements of the naval service. The NRL is based in Washington, D.C., with additional field sites and specialized facilities. Its research spans various fields, including materials science, systems engineering, and space science, significantly contributing to radar, navigation, and other electronic warfare capabilities. One of its notable achievements is the development of GPS technology. The NRL plays a crucial role in enhancing the technological capabilities of the U.S. military by innovating in areas that affect national security and global military balance.
The U.S. Naval Research Laboratory and DARPA have developed a robotic payload capable of servicing…
Instruments from the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory have recorded the passage of comet C/2023 A3,…
NRL’s Compact Coronagraph on NOAA’s GOES-19 spacecraft has started capturing crucial images of the Sun’s…
A U.S. Naval Research Laboratory intern discovered a millisecond pulsar in the Glimpse-CO1 cluster using…
The U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL), working together with Kansas State University, has announced the…
The U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL), in conjunction with the international Fermi Large Area Telescope…
Astronomers have confirmed the existence of a unique stellar object, an ultra-long period magnetar, challenging…
Sun’s magnetic waves tweak its outer layer’s chemistry—key to predicting solar impacts on Earth’s tech.…
U.S. Naval Research Laboratory researchers led a team of scientists who discovered some of the…
U.S. Naval Research Laboratory researchers evaluated commercial ultraviolet (UV) sources for viral disinfection to combat…
The U.S. Naval Research Laboratory’s Large Angle Spectrometric Coronagraph (LASCO) instrument identified the 4000th comet…
U.S. Naval Research Laboratory engineers launched PRAM, the Photovoltaic Radio-frequency Antenna Module, aboard an Air…
David Storm, a research physicist, and Tyler Growden, an electrical engineer, both with the U.S.…
Jellyfish Can Sting Swimmers, Prey With “Mucus Grenades” Interdisciplinary research team discovers, describes new free-floating…
A team of physicists, headed by the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL), have demonstrated the…
New research from the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory shows that high-quality gallium indium phosphide (GaInP)…