Primarily, the compass was used for geomancy for a long time before it was used for navigation Ancient Chinese alchemists realized that the magnetite ore would point towards a magnetic north. Their ...

Scientists have traced a repeating fast radio burst (FRB) to the edge of an ancient galaxy where star formation has drastically dropped. Researchers are struggling to explain what caused it.

Now that we have a better idea of how these star dunes form, scientists can use that information to look for other evidence of ancient star dunes in Earth’s geological record. Josh Hawkins has ...

Powered by The Copper Compass is a Five Star Sands of Eon Artifact found in Genshin Impact. An ancient bronze compass. Its needle points towards some ever-distant shore, to a non-existent harbor.

This ancient field likely even connected with Earth’s ... For human and robotic explorers venturing beyond Earth, far more advanced navigation tools have replaced the simple compass. Whether it’s GPS, ...

“Typically, studying ancient star-forming regions requires observing galaxies that are tens of billions of light years away.” Next the scientists assembled a dataset covering 17 distinct ...