NASA's New Horizons spacecraft has traveled so far from Earth that the relative position of the stars is beginning to shift — a fact that could help future spacecraft navigate the galaxy on their own.

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A total of 41 Chinese warships and China Coast Guard (CCG) vessels were monitored over some features in the West Philippine Sea (WPS) in May, according to ...

Kelly Tarlton's death, a team made up of friends, family and marine enthusiasts embark upon an adventure to complete one of ...

Human ingenuity, of course, led to our development of a range of instruments to be used on ships for navigation. One of the most important of these is the sextant, which goes back centuries ...

No cloudy weather gets in the way of the radio sextant, nor can an enemy jam the radio impluses (as is possible with other radio aids to navigation, such as Loran).

Scientists and scholars used tools similar to sextants — such as an astrolabe — to measure the angles of stars above the horizon. Still, the sextant began life as a navigational instrument ...

Question: How do transport-category jets navigate the North Atlantic? Gone are the days of navigating with a sextant. Until the early 1980s, my former airline actually utilized a sextant viewing ...