It's a warm January summer afternoon, and as I traverse the flower-strewn western slopes of Australia's highest mountain, ...

Imagine traveling more than 600 miles from the only home you’ve ever known, to a mountain ridge you’ve never been to. It’s ...

A species of Australian moth travels up to a thousand kilometers every summer using the stars to navigate, scientists said ...

In a study published in the scientific journal Nature, researchers found the bogong moths use the starry sky as a guide to ...

Bogong moths use both Earth's magnetic field and the starry night sky to make twice-yearly migrations spanning hundreds of ...

A species of Australian moth travels up to a thousand kilometers every summer using the stars to navigate, scientists said ...

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

New research finds that Australia’s endangered Bogong moths use the stars to make an epic round-trip migration through the ...

Bogong moths are the first invertebrates known to navigate using the night sky during annual migrations to highland caves ...

A new study suggests that these Australian insects may be the first invertebrates to use the night sky as a compass during ...

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

Last Word is New Scientist’s long-running series in which readers give scientific answers to each other’s questions, ranging ...