Nestled in the rolling green hills of the English countryside is an important site in global astronomical history. But now, with its future uncertain, this historic site is at risk.

A partial solar eclipse is happening on March 29 and you can watch it all online for free. On the morning of March 29, the new moon will partially cover the sun's disk, creating the appearance of a ...

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 ...

On Saturday 29 March people living in the UK were treated to a stunning sight - a partial solar eclipse. Take a look at some ...

To a navigator, time and distance are tightly linked. Earth turns 360 degrees on its axis every 24 hours. This means that a person standing on the equator travels east one degree of longitude ...

At the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, home of the meridian, the partial eclipse started at 10.07am, with the moon appearing ...

NEW YORK (AP) — A European space telescope launched to explore the ... released Wednesday by the European Space Agency's Euclid observatory includes a preview of three cosmic areas that 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 ...

Although the institution was founded to produce star charts, the Royal Observatory Greenwich had since moved onto astrophysical research, using telescopes to better understand the physics of the ...