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

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

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

An international conference on the origins of galaxies pays tribute to the pioneering scientific cooperation between Muslims, ...

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

Their findings in the area of astronomy, mathematics, and geography pioneered ... to Apollonius of Perga between 220 and 150 B.C. or to Hipparchus. It was essentially an analog calculator ...

A UNSW Sydney mathematician has discovered a new method to tackle algebra's oldest challenge—solving higher polynomial equations. Polynomials are equations involving a variable raised to powers ...

Since the start of the 20th century, the heart of mathematics has been the proof — a rigorous, logical argument for whether a given statement is true or false. Mathematicians’ careers are measured by ...