Ancient Chinese astronomers were careful in how they described celestial phenomena when reporting to the emperor. To ensure ...

The second piece, Zhong Ming He (Chimes of Celebration), was composed by Tan Dun and inspired by Qing-era golden bell chimes ...

The oldest representation of the night sky and our Milky Way galaxy was found in an Egyptian sarcophagus, revealing ancient ...

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

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

A Chinese satellite company has launched the first tranche of a planned 'space data center' satellite constellation. At 12:12 on May 14, Chengdu Guoxing Aerospace Technology Co., Ltd, also known as ...

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

The oldest star chart in the world was made in China ... constellations appear to drift over hundreds of years because of the wobble in our planet's axis. Stars also have their own motion, which means ...

A Long March-2D carrier rocket carrying a space computing satellite constellation blasts off from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China on May 14, 2025. China launched a Long ...

Stone walls can be found here and there in other states, but only in New England are they nearly ubiquitous. That’s due to a regionally unique combination of hard crystalline bedrock, glacial soils ...

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 ...

WENCHANG, Hainan, March 13 (Xinhua) -- China successfully launched the fifth batch of low Earth orbit satellites for its first commercial satellite constellation from a seaside spacecraft launch ...