Certain historians look favorably on this later date because it aligns the catalog’s use of spherical coordinates more closely with the Chinese invention of the armillary sphere (a spherical ...

A comic book featuring ancient Slovenian astronomer Ferdinand Avgustin Hallerstein was launchd here on Thursday, which is hailed as a promoter to the cultural exchanges between China and Slovenia. The ...

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

Ancient Chinese astronomer Shi Shen’s star catalog, known as The Star Manual of Master Shi, is now considered the oldest star ...

The Star Manual of Master Shi is an ancient Chinese star catalog now claimed by astronomers at the Chinese National ...

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

The Antikythera Mechanism, widely believed to be the world’s first computer, has had a lasting impact on scientists across ...

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

Catholics have a new pope, and for the first time in the church’s history, it’s an American. It took the College of Cardinals only two days to elect U.S. Cardinal Robert Prevost as the ...

who calculated the positions of 2,500 stars and 124 constellations with the help of an armillary sphere, the first in the world, which he invented. OTHER ANCIENT CHINESE BRILLIANCE: 4,200-Year-Old ...

On Friday, the New York Post published excerpts of a demand letter from Sphere owner James Dolan’s attorneys. Beyoncé has removed concert visuals which show her grabbing Las Vegas' Sphere arena, ...