Galaxy Curtain Call, by Chinese photographer Li Tianhong, won a major award at this year's Royal Museums Greenwich astronomy photography contest. Photo provided by the Royal Museums Greenwich A ...

A Chinese astronomy satellite has discovered the strongest magnetic field yet found in the universe, according to a team of researchers. They said the field – with a strength of 1.6 billion tesla – ...

Before you even enter the new Shanghai Astronomy Museum, you feel like you have entered the realm of space. Overhead view of the Ennead Architects-designed Shanghai Astronomy Museum. Bird's eye view ...

Undated file photo provided by the Zhengzhou Cultural Heritage Bureau shows a relic unearthed from the Qingtai Ruins in Zhengzhou, capital of Central China's Henan province. Chinese archaeologists ...

The Historical Astronomy Division (HAD) of the American Astronomical Society (AAS) has awarded its 2011 Donald E. Osterbrock Book Prize to Nathan Sivin for his landmark volume “Granting the Seasons: ...

High in Beijing’s sky, the August sun glows red by midafternoon, a star struggling to illuminate China’s crowded capital from above the dust and pollution. I’m in the city along with 3,200 astronomers ...

Chinese scholars have been making astronomical observations for thousands of years, but the country is a relative latecomer to the field’s modern incarnation. That is changing fast, though, as Cui ...

As the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics draws closer, the designs for the Olympic and Paralympics Winter Game medals have garnered more and more attention. On Monday, Chinese news outlet Science and ...

Dr. Yunjuan He, associate professor of Chinese, teaches students during the July 2019 STARTALK academy on UNG's Dahlonega Campus. A new STARTALK grant will fund another camp, plus tutoring and ...

In the eighteenth century, from opposite ends of the world, a debate raged between two scholars over a seemingly esoteric question: did Chinese history predate Judeo-Christian antiquity? Antoine ...

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 globally.