When it comes to locating objects in the night sky, how does one convey its precise position? The sky is divided into a scattered pattern of 88 constellations of various sizes and shapes covering ...

As someone who has spent thousands of hours observing the night sky, I like to think that I’m pretty familiar with it and able to navigate my way around with some ease. That’s certainly true on the ...

The Airbus A330 that I fly across the Atlantic to any of several European cities is equipped with onboard navigation computers that tell us in the cockpit exactly where we are at any time. But when ...