Living knowledge is not merely an ancient survival

The study reports traditions capable of orienting travel to within a few degrees through celestial cues.

The overview rejects portrayals of Indigenous Australians as passive observers without systematic knowledge.

Researchers surveyed villages across central India to document sky stories and observational traditions among Gond communities.

The study shows that familiar star patterns are not universal and can be grouped according to distinct cultural histories.

Celestial observations interact with agriculture, ritual, ancestry and community identity.

The spacecraft made humanity’s first close flyby of the dwarf planet.

Cameras and instruments collected data on Pluto during the encounter; transmission to Earth continued afterward.

The mission studied Pluto and its large moon Charon during the same close encounter.

The flyby transformed Pluto from a distant point into a world with visible geological features.

LIGO scientists reported a signal from merging black holes recorded on 14 September 2015.