When landing on the surface of the Moon, astronauts can become spatially disoriented, which is when they lose sense of their orientation – they might not be able to tell which way is up. This ...

Pilots are susceptible to various visual illusions and spatial disorientation, even in visual meteorological conditions, due to conflicting sensory input between vision, inner ear, and proprioception.

Emmy Award-winning journalist Kris Van Cleave is the senior transportation correspondent for CBS News based in Phoenix, Arizona, where he also serves as a national correspondent reporting for all CBS ...

March 23 (UPI) --The National Transportation Safety Board determined that a pilot involved in a 2021 plane crash that killed seven people was probably disoriented at the time of the incident. The ...

The Federal Aviation Administration says pilot disorientation causes 5% to 10% of all general aviation accidents, and there could be new technology to help make flying safer. "Spatial disorientation ...

Vivekanand Pandey Vimal, GSAS PhD’17, is a research scientist at Brandeis’ Ashton Graybiel Spatial Orientation Lab. This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license.

Students perform a dance in the Spingold Theater while wearing homemade sensory augmentation devices as part of a project that explores how vibrational cues affect movement during dance. Vivekanand ...

An airplane crash in which two Central Kentucky men died probably happened because the pilot became disoriented after flying into bad weather, according to a federal report. Investigators also found a ...

The cause of a 2022 Hermantown plane crash that killed three Twin Cities metro area residents has been revealed by the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB). The Oct. 1 crash happened when the ...