Gyroscopic instruments, including the attitude indicator, heading indicator, and turn coordinator, are crucial for providing ...

An Australian moth follows the stars during its yearly migration, using the night sky as a guiding compass, according to a new study.

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 ...

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

Bogong moths use stars and Earth’s magnetic field to navigate epic migrations - revealing the first known stellar compass in ...

When the insects were presented with a natural starry sky without a magnetic field, they consistently flew in the right migratory direction for the season - south in spring, north in autumn. "When the ...

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 ...

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 ...

Using a Helmholtz coil system, which nullifies Earth's magnetic field, they projected different starry vistas onto the vacuum chamber, and observed that the moths still flew in a seasonally ...