Today our methods of pinpointing locations on Earth are reliant on space-based satellite navigation systems such as the Global Positioning System (GPS). But scientists in the UK claim to have found a ...

How does a compass work in space? From the moon to Venus, here’s how a compass would work beyond Earth’s magnetic field. Explorers have long trusted compasses to navigate Earth’s land and oceans, ...

For decades, scientists have known that migratory birds use Earth’s geomagnetic field—along with light, stars, and other cues—to guide them on remarkably long journeys. But it is unclear just how ...

Compasses are an emblem of the spirit of adventure. They were one of the earliest navigation tools used by explorers to map the globe, and have stayed in use from the age of ships to the era of ...

Birds have an impressive ability to navigate. They can fly long distances, to places that they may never have visited before, sometimes returning home after months away. Though there has been a lot of ...

Joe: Today, we're in the spectacular Yorkshire Dales, a national park to the north of Leeds in the central Pennines. I'm with Isaac, Ruby and Eddie. They've been blindfolded for the last part of our ...

The monarch butterfly uses a magnetic compass to guide its extraordinary migration thousands of km across North America, scientists say. Monarchs are known to possess a Sun compass but even on cloudy ...