Tucked away on the sixth floor of Butler Library lies an exploration of the past, present, and future of celestial navigation. “Celestial Navigation,” curated by Jeannie Rhyu, CC ’17, SoA ’26, opened ...

Several 5000-year-old temples in Malta seem to have been oriented towards specific stars, suggesting the temples could have been schools for celestial navigation. Ancient people constructed seven ...

Each year, Bogong moths in Australia embark on a 620-mile journey to escape the summer heat by retreating to cool alpine caves. These nocturnal insects then return home to breed and die, completing a ...

In order to navigate, pilots used a combination of time-honored navigational tools, such as sextants and radio to determine their positions.

Polaris, our current North Star, isn’t magically fixed in place by some cosmic force. It just happens to sit almost directly ...

A surge in GPS jamming attacks in drone warfare has inspired Australian researchers to develop a celestial navigation system that uses visual data from stars rather than relying on the global ...

The best space games take advantage of what the universe has in abundance: room and limitless opportunity. Games such as the classic Privateer series and, more recently, Freelancer understood that and ...

Both parts worked wonderfully, and made a very satisfying whole, the overlong Philip Glass encore the only misjudgement of the evening. Kolesnikov got the volcanic changes of mood in the various ...