The Large Sky Area Multi-Object Fiber Spectroscopic Telescope (LAMOST), a leading optical telescope project in China, will move from the northern province of Hebei to Qinghai in the northwest for ...

Known as Guo Shoujing Telescope in China, LAMOST was put into operation to gather high-quality spectra, an important collection of data that helps astronomers concerned with celestial bodies ...

Joint observations with NASA’s Kepler satellite and China’s LAMOST telescope could tell us how planets outside our solar system are formed. A team, including a Peking University researcher ...

A Chinese telescope has collected data on more than 7 million stars to compile the world’s largest database on cosmic entities.

LAMOST's wide-field, multi-object spectroscopic capabilities allowed the team to obtain accurate parameters for a large number of stars in regions of intermediate and high extinction.

Scientists are making the case for China’s largest optical telescope to be relocated to the clear skies above the northwestern Gobi Desert, where they say it will be better placed to fulfil its ...