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 ...

The same techniques guided ancient Polynesians in the open Pacific and led Sir Ernest Shackleton to remote Antarctica, then oriented astronauts when the Apollo 12 was disabled by lightning, the ...

Learn how US aircraft carriers navigate when aircraft radar and aircraft GPS fail, using celestial navigation, dead reckoning, and resilient backup systems in contested warzones. Pixabay, ...

Annapolis, MD -- The US Navy had stopped teaching its sailors how to use the stars to navigate. But now, with increased threats of cyber attacks, it's bringing back celestial navigation. Lieutenant ...

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 ...

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 ...