Imagine traveling more than 600 miles from the only home you’ve ever known, to a mountain ridge you’ve never been to. It’s ...

Bogong moths are the first invertebrates known to navigate using the night sky during annual migrations to highland caves ...

A threatened Australian insect joins the exclusive club of celestial navigators.

Scientists found that an Australian moth navigates using a celestial compass, possibly guided by the Milky Way itself.

A species of Australian moth travels up to a thousand kilometres every summer using the stars to navigate, scientists said ...

The moths emerge from their larval stage with the tools to make this journey, but no one knows how the 1-inch-long moths ...

"We know that daytime migratory insects use the sun, so testing the starry sky seemed an obvious thing to try." ...

An Australian moth follows the stars during its yearly migration, using the night sky as a guiding compass, according to a ...

Inside that coprolite (a fossilized piece of dung) paleontologists have discovered the oldest physical evidence of Lepidoptera, the group that includes moths and butterflies. Microscopic scales, just ...

In Brazil, researchers from the University of São Paulo (USP), the University of Brasília (UnB), and two startups in the city ...