A new preprint suggests that an ancient Chinese star catalog dates to 355 B.C.E. But other researchers aren't convinced, ...

Shi’s Star Catalog has been notoriously difficult to date, but new research suggests astronomers drafted it centuries before ...

Thousands of years ago, Chinese astronomers used an ancient record of constellations and their coordinates to study the sky.

According to a controversial new study the world's oldest star map, known as the Star Manual of Master Shi, was created in ...

For more than two thousand years, people have mapped the stars. But a new study claims one of the world’s oldest surviving ...

They found that the ancient star chart actually dates to 355 B.C. — 250 years earlier than previously thought — and that it ...