Thousands of years ago, Chinese astronomers used an ancient record of constellations and their coordinates to study the sky.

Griffith Observatory held a party on Wednesday, May 14, celebrating its 90th anniversary, and the leaders who make sure the ...

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

A star was born in 1935, when Griffith Observatory became the first public observatory west of the Mississippi. Now, ...

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

The sites comprise Dunsink Observatory House in Dublin ... "These places of trailblazing scientific endeavour epitomise historical collaboration across the island," he said.

Nestled in the rolling green hills of the English countryside is an important site in global astronomical history ... former home of the Royal Greenwich Observatory. The Royal Observatory ...

The Historical Observatories of Ireland, which include Dunsink Observatory in Co Dublin, Birr Castle Demesne in Co Offaly and Armagh Observatory in Co Armagh, have been added to Ireland’s ...