Native to Australia, tiny Bogong moths travel hundreds of miles in an astonishing annual migration by using the starry night ...

It's a warm January summer afternoon, and as I traverse the flower-strewn western slopes of Australia's highest mountain, ...

E very spring, Bogong moths ( Agrotis infusa) fly up 1,000 kilometers (600 miles) to take shelter in the handful of ...

A groundbreaking study from Lund University in Sweden shows that the Australian Bogong moth uses the stars and the Milky Way as a compass during its ...

Australia’s iconic bogong moths are the first creatures other than humans and some birds known to navigate by the night sky.

Opinion: In this op-ed, retired Navy Capt. John Cordle shares why he chose to retire from his position as a federal worker ...

Directions measured from the geographic poles are called true directions.” The magnetic north pole where the magnetic compass points is not in the same location as the geographic north pole ...

When you have True North enabled, your compass will point to the Earth's geographic North Pole instead of the magnetic north. ...

The magnetic north pole, where compass needles point, is about 1,200 miles south and is where geomagnetic field lines are vertical. Earth’s magnetic north is not static.

Earth’s magnetic north is not static. Like an anchorless buoy pushed by ocean waves, the magnetic field is constantly on the move as liquid iron sloshes around in the planet’s outer core.

Every scout knows how to read a compass, and that there is a magnetic north and a true north. That’s because the Earth’s magnetic field isn’t exactly aligned with the North Pole.

The updated version of the World Magnetic Model was released on Dec. 17, with a new prediction of how the magnetic north pole ...