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

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

It's a warm January summer afternoon, and as I traverse the flower-strewn western slopes of Australia's highest mountain, Mount Kosciuszko, I am on the lookout for a telltale river of boulders that ...

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

A groundbreaking study from Lund University in Sweden shows that the Australian Bogong moth uses the stars and the Milky Way as a compass during its ...

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

Native to Australia, tiny Bogong moths travel hundreds of miles in an astonishing annual migration by using the starry night ...

The orientation of the nighttime sky determines the moths’ direction of movement. When researchers showed moths random star patterns, they flew in random directions. Dreyer et al./Nature ...

One theory is that they sometimes "cross-check" their direction with their magnetic compass, Dreyer said. Another question is exactly which stars the moths are using to navigate.

If it happens to be cloudy one night, the moths probably lean more heavily on their magnetic compass to ensure they’re heading in the right direction. Having two navigational systems is an ...