Mirror Moon goes on display in the Meridian Courtyard at the Royal Observatory Greenwich, right alongside the Prime Meridian ...

June 22 marks the 350th anniversary of the Royal Observatory Greenwich, the home of the historic Prime Meridian that is considered by many to be the birthplace of modern astronomy. To celebrate, we're ...

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"We’re made of bits of dead stars." London -- After a 60-year hiatus, astronomers at the Royal Observatory Greenwich in London are studying the sky again. The observatory, which is home to the Prime ...

The observatory, Britain's oldest scientific institution, was built in south-east London in 1675 to help improve navigation at sea for sailors by studying the stars and planets. Today, it exists ...

(ESO) and thereby gaining access to some of the most advanced telescope facilities in the world a press briefing will be held at the Royal Observatory Greenwich (ROG), London on Monday 8th July at ...

The famed Royal Observatory in Greenwich, United Kingdom, is reopening more than 60 years after London’s smog forced its closure in 1957. By the 1940s and 1950s, London’s industrialization—which ...

In anticipation of the upcoming equinox at Saturn, the imaging science team on NASA’s Cassini spacecraft is releasing today a series of images and movies capturing scenes possible only once every 15 ...

The Royal Observatory in Greenwich is to become a working observatory again, six decades after light and air pollution forced astronomers out of the capital. After hosting stargazers for nearly three ...