Tiny white dots of stars appear on a black background, with about a dozen larger bright spots with fuzzy edges also visible. A rich collection of galaxies at the heart of the Virgo supercluster of ...

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NEW YORK (AP) — An Australian moth follows the stars during its yearly migration, using the night sky as a guiding compass, according to a new study. When temperatures heat up, nocturnal Bogong moths ...

This is from the online archives of The Star of North Augusta, a collection of more than 25,000 articles published from October 2007 to February 2022. There is a huge hunt among scientific researchers ...

Each spring, billions of bogong moths fill southeast Australia’s skies. Fleeing the lowlands and trying to beat the heat, they fly roughly 600 miles to caves embedded in the Australian Alps. The moths ...

TWICE A YEAR the skies of south-eastern Australia fill with billions of Bogong moths. In the spring these unassuming brown critters, about an inch long, fly south from their birthplace in Queensland ...

Bats are impressive navigators. Like so many mini submarines equipped with sonar, they deftly navigate dark forests and caves by listening for the echoes of their own calls. But how bats can tell ...

An Australian moth follows the stars during its yearly migration, using the night sky as a guiding compass, according to a new study. When temperatures heat up, nocturnal Bogong moths fly about 1,000 ...