The Navy is once again teaching celestial navigation as a back up in case GPS systems become unusable. Celestial navigation, sometimes referred to as astronavigation, is a way for a navigator to use ...

Senior Chief Petty Officer Jonathan Myers teaches Command Master Chief April Beldo how to use a marine sextant during a demonstration of celestial navigation aboard the aircraft carrier USS Carl ...

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 ...

For thousands of years, celestial navigation was only practiced by men in Polynesia. Now women are reclaiming traditions that are rightly theirs. © 2017 POLYNESIAN VOXAGIN ...

Sometimes old-school is best. In today’s U.S. Navy, navigating a warship by the stars instead of GPS is making a comeback. The Naval Academy stopped teaching celestial navigation in the late 1990s, ...

Keeping track of position is crucial in a lot of situations. On Earth, it’s usually relatively straight-forward, with systems having been developed over the centuries that would allow one to get at ...

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 ...

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 ...

This article was originally published at The Conversation. The publication contributed the article to Space.com's Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights. This article contains minor spoilers. One of the ...

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 ...