An odd star brightened for more than 70 days in 5 B.C.E., according to a Chinese text. The object may have been a comet that ...

A look at the enduring mystery of the ‘Star of Bethlehem’, exploring whether Jupiter, rare planetary alignments, comets or supernovae could explain the celestial event that has fascinated astronomers ...

China continues to make big advances in the final frontier. The nation just launched three Long March rockets in less than 19 ...

Astronomers have sighted the oldest known stellar explosion, dating back to when the universe was less than a billion years ...

Long before modern observatories and spacecraft, court scribes in ancient China were quietly building one of humanity’s first ...

The chance rediscovery of the ancient Chinese Sanxingdui civilization is legendary in and of itself. In 1929, an unsuspecting ...

An immensely powerful flash detected earlier this year was created by a massive star exploding when the universe was just ...

India is actively pursuing a decolonisation agenda, moving beyond English's historical dominance. This initiative, championed ...

A new study revisits ancient Chinese records to explore whether a comet could explain the Star of Bethlehem described in ...

Foreign vloggers pose for photos at the Taosi Archaeological Site in Linfen city, Shanxi province, on Thursday. The visit was part of the Discovering Shanxi's Ancient Chinese Architecture — Overseas ...

An international group of researchers has reexamined the earliest written account of a total solar eclipse, dating back to 709 BCE, by combining historical geography and modern astronomy. Their study ...