Because the Earth and other celestial bodies are in motion, the apparent position of stars, planets and the sun in the sky changes.

A new celestial navigation system designed for drones could make them harder to detect by eliminating the need for GPS signal emissions.

Here's your comprehensive guide to what's happening in the cosmos from June 16th to June 30th, 2025: Kicking off our celestial tour, the crescent Moon will offer picturesque conjunctions with ...

“Nonetheless, celestial navigation is one of the few non-emissive modalities that enables global navigation over the ocean at night in [a] Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) denied ...

Imagine traveling to a new and distant place using only your senses to guide you. This is life for Australia's bogong moths. Each spring, they migrate up to 1,000 kilometers to remote caves in the ...

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 ...