A new study finds an Australian moth follows the stars during its yearly migration, using the night sky as a guiding compass ...

Scientists found that an Australian moth navigates using a celestial compass, possibly guided by the Milky Way itself.

In a world-first discovery, researchers have shown that Australia's iconic Bogong moth uses constellations of stars and the ...

Planets, constellations, and meteor showers are only part of it. Stargazing in Wadi Rum is as much about feeling as it is ...

There are two ways to use a star map. First, we can go from the sky to the map. Suppose, for example, we spot a fairly bright star halfway from the southeastern horizon to the zenith (the map’s center ...

June offers a celestial spectacle, starting with the Milky Way's rise in dark skies. Venus shines brightly in the early ...

I’ve been finding my way around the night sky with a star map for more than six decades and have always found it quite easy. And then in 1994, I visited ...

In ‘The Ways in Patterns’, cutting-edge tools present the grandeur and beauty of age-old motifs in engaging virtual ...

When a massive star explodes in a brilliant flash called a supernova, it sends out a wave of high-energy particles into space ...

Polaris, which lies roughly 430 light-years from Earth, marks the end of the Little Dipper’s handle. Alternatively, it’s the ...

Asteri, the pioneering female-founded Saudi Arabian beauty brand named after Asteria, the Greek goddess of falling stars, has ...

Mizar, a star in the Big Dipper's handle, has a tiny companion. This star, Alcor, was known to the ancients. The pair was ...