The Star Manual of Master Shi is an ancient Chinese star catalog now claimed by astronomers at the Chinese National Astronomical Observatories (NAO) to be the oldest surviving star catalog ...

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

Archaeologists in China have unearthed a mysterious set of rectangular wooden pieces linked to an ancient astronomical calendar. The artifacts were discovered inside an exceptionally well ...

These Scientists Say They’ve Identified the Oldest Known Star Chart in the World A new preprint suggests that an ancient Chinese star catalog dates to 355 B.C.E. But other researchers aren’t ...