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The Royal Observatory Greenwich commemorated its 350th anniversary, having been established in 1675 by King Charles II. Its initial mandate focused on resolving the longitude problem, a significant ...

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 ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. The Royal Observatory Greenwich has unveiled the shortlisted ...

On 29 March, a partial solar eclipse will pass over Canada and parts of northern Europe, including London. Thanks to our friends at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, we can experience this event ...

From sundials to atomic clocks, our understanding of time has become a lot more accurate as technological developments allowed us to measure it more precisely. Much more than helping us arrive on time ...

LONDON (RNS) — The New Crescent Society, which is organizing the Greenwich event with the Royal Observatory, is hoping moon sighting will become fully established in Britain and be used by mosques.

Near the Moon’s western limb lies Oceanus Procellarum, the Ocean of Storms — a vast swath of terrain spanning 1,600 miles (2,500 kilometers) north to south, and covering 10.5 percent of the lunar ...