It's easy to measure the distance between multiple points on Google Maps on your phone or computer. Here's how to do it.

While they are in the air, balloonists often need to determine how far they are from a specific location or object in the distance. To do this, they can rely on high-tech equipment for exact ...

The neural circuits that underpin spatial navigation in mammals, birds, and reptiles are well known, but it was unclear whether similar structures also existed in fish. This knowledge would allow us ...

A way of estimating more accurate distances to the thousands of so-called "planetary nebulae" dispersed across our Galaxy has just been announced by a team of three astronomers based at the University ...

Cepheid distances are determined through the so-called inverse-square law of light, which tells astronomers how a star’s apparent brightness diminishes with distance. If a star appears to have a ...

Humans use lots of different types of information to make sure we don't get lost. We can look out for familiar landmarks and use our sense of direction, but we can also estimate how far we have walked ...

Humans can estimate distances to sound sources better when they move and exploit auditory motion parallax. The ability to estimate distances to sound sources accurately can be crucial for survival. A ...