A Feb. 22 Instagram post (direct link, archive link) claims a form of navigation that relies on celestial objects such as the sun, moon and stars proves the Earth is flat and stationary. "The Ancients ...

To give directions around town, people often use landmarks for reference. “How do we get to Fred Meyer?” Neil Nickerson asked a packed crowd at the Marie Drake Planetarium Tuesday night. “Down the ...

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 ...

Celestial navigation on the open ocean is a part of the human story, our story, since pre-historic times. Reading the sky, the wind, the water and wildlife, Polynesian navigators sailed from Tahiti to ...

A new celestial navigation system designed for drones could make them harder to detect by eliminating the need for GPS signal emissions. Scientists from the University of South Australia have ...

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 ...

It was how Odysseus sailed the seas, how Columbus reached the Americas, and how Lawrence of Arabia found his way across the vast, featureless deserts of the Middle East. For millennia, travellers used ...