Starting in 1836, a former Royal Observatory employee named John Belville charged people an annual fee to use his pocket ...

From sundials to atomic clocks, our understanding of time has become a lot more accurate as technological developments ...

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

Near the small town of Herstmonceux in the English county of East Sussex sits the former home of the Royal Greenwich Observatory. The Royal Observatory Greenwich was first built in Greenwich ...

Will the Universe end in a Big Freeze, a Big Rip – or something even stranger? Take a look into the distant future with ...

Space is a favourite setting for many Hollywood films, but just how accurate are their portrayals? Patricia Skelton, an astronomer at the Royal Observatory Greenwich, sheds some light on the ...

“On the morning of April 25, in the eastern sky just before sunrise you’ll be able to see a thin crescent moon,” Jessica Lee, an astronomer at the Royal Observatory Greenwich, told the PA ...

From the Royal Observatory in Greenwich to Warwickshire and all the way up to Manchester, people watched as the Moon moved in front of the Sun, stirring up a range of emotions. We even got a great ...

Stargazers in the UK could soon be able to witness the first 'shooting stars' of spring as the Lyrid meteor shower is expected to light up UK skies throughout the month of April. The spectacular ...