Familiar constellations are etched there ... Researchers today continue to uncover details about this ancient map. Known as the oldest surviving representation of the world, the Imago Mundi ...

A new preprint suggests that an ancient Chinese star catalog dates to 355 B.C.E. But other researchers aren't convinced, ...

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

Newly discovered fragments of 2,200-year-old star coordinates—once thought lost—reveal the incredible skill of the ancient astronomer ... used by scientists to map objects in the sky.

The map was discovered by scholars studying Christian ... stimulate people to think in new ways about the history of ancient astronomy, since much of the new evidence it contains remains open ...

A new analysis of the religious manuscript shows that the hidden text is probably from the ancient Greek astronomer Hipparchus, whose map of the ... for the History of Astronomy.

“[H]e seemed to have identified the constellation ... ancient inhabitants of the Castelliere di Rupinpiccolo where they were discovered. Could the chisel-marked stone really be the oldest star ...

and a very interesting discussion of the vexed question of the origin of the ancient (especially the zodiacal) constellations, on which subject the author has succeeded in throwing fresh light ...

We in the Western Hemisphere know of 88 constellations distributed around the heavens, passed down to us by ancient skywatchers. Represented among the stars are objects that include a crown ...

In the depths of the southern sky, where the stars appear brighter and more numerous, there once existed a constellation so vast and majestic that modern astronomers were forced to divide it. In ...