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 ...

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.

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 ...

Chinese astronaut conduct a spherical flame experiment during an orbit to ground space lecture using a match and a candle.

Scientists from Chinese Academy of Sciences report soil's stickiness stems from combination of extremely fine particles and ...

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: ...

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 ...

Lunar New Year began Saturday February 10. But have you ever stopped to wonder why it's celebrated at this time or where the current Chinese calendar comes from? Space historian Osnat Katz Moon says ...

A Chinese rocket that launched to orbit around Earth last week is now out of control and expected to reenter the atmosphere around May 8 or 9. The 20-ton Long March 5B booster launched on April 28 ...

Dark, quiet, and cold as hell. That’s how Chinese astronomer Licai Deng describes the site on the Tibetan Plateau he and his colleague spent three years investigating as a possible location for large ...

This article offers a social and geographical network analysis of all attested works, authors, and practitioners in the mathematical sciences in China over the period of disunion and reunification ...

The University of North Georgia (UNG) has received a two-year STARTALK grant of more than $327,000 from the National Security Agency (NSA) to provide instruction on the Chinese language and astronomy ...