They found that the ancient star chart actually dates to 355 B.C. — 250 years earlier than previously thought — and that it ...

The bright constellations of winter have departed in the west, while the stars of spring are climbing the eastern and ...

Astronomers have discovered a giant, 500-light-year-wide cavity between two star-forming regions in the constellations ...

Shi Shen's Star Catalogue, also called the Star Manual of Master Shi, was deduced to be the world's oldest by scientists ...

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 ...

Greek navigators had an alternative name for the Little Bear – Kynosoura – which literally means "dog’s tail" and must derive from some other ancient constellation-makers now lost to history.