Instead they travel through the night with the help of the light from the Milky Way, which contrasts to the surrounding dark sky. Studies also support that seals, moths, frogs and other animals ...

Through their superposition compound eyes, a beetle’s view of the night sky is certainly no detailed star chart. But the pattern they do see contains all the information they need. The streak of ...

Nocturnal animals rely on the Milky Way to navigate, research has found. A new report from Sweden 's Lund University concludes that many animals that are active at night depend on individual stars ...

From dung beetles to seals, these animals navigate by the stars A small but diverse group of species relies on the night sky to guide their search for food and mates.

One moonless night a little more than a decade ago, Marie Dacke and Eric Warrant, animal vision experts from Lund University in Sweden, made a surprise discovery in South Africa. The researchers ...

A group of New Brunswickers hopes to capitalize on the extraordinary darkness of the Bay of Fundy coast by creating a ...

The stars are vanishing before our very eyes, as increasing levels of light pollution mean that increasingly fewer stars are visible in the night sky above us. A global community science project found ...

Many nocturnal animal species use light from the moon and stars to migrate at night in search of food, shelter or mates. But in our recent study we uncovered how artificial light is disrupting ...

If you look at the light from the night sky, without moonlight or light pollution, about one-fifth of the total light comes from the stars. Most of those comprise the Milky Way.

Every year, the sky gets as much as 10 per cent brighter, according to a major new study. That means that vast numbers of stars that were once visible are now hidden from astronomers and the public.