Skygazers across the UK – and in other parts of the world – are looking up to catch the astronomical spectacle.

In order to keep time accurately, we have always had to set our clocks by the ticks of a better one. Until the 1950s, the best were those set by astronomers based on the position of the sun in the sky ...

TIME began in Greenwich, or at least it’s where you’ll find the Meridian Line. Not only does the London borough have an ...

Venus and Saturn are set to align with the crescent moon on Friday morning in a rare astronomical event. Stargazers will be ...

The Royal Greenwich Observatory said this year, the Lyrids will be visible from April 16 to April 25, peaking on April 22.

Greenwich Observatory said the best way to see the showers is at a dark site with an unobstructed view of the sky. The Lyrids ...

The Royal Observatory Greenwich is livestreaming the solar eclipse from London, U.K. Royal Observatory astronomer Greg Brown will be explaining the science of the sun and solar eclipses during the ...

In the Royal Greenwich Observatory Archives at Cambridge University Library, one man’s papers take up a staggering 110 meters of shelving. In a new article from Isis: the Journal of the History of ...

Since an international conference in 1884, the world’s time zones have been measured from a line at the Royal Observatory. GMT means Greenwich Mean Time, and putting one foot either side of the ...

From the Royal Observatory in Greenwich to Warwickshire ... Elizabeth Binney is visiting London from Thailand and headed to Greenwich this morning with a running group. "It's such a buzz, I ...

In the Royal Greenwich Observatory Archives at Cambridge University Library, one man's papers take up a staggering 110 meters of shelving. In a new article from Isis: the Journal of the History of ...