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

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. Near the small ...

To fix this the Royal Observatory decided to set a standard time that everyone could set clocks to. This was called Greenwich Mean time(GMT). GMT became the only official time used in the UK ...

I n 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 ...

In 1884, an international conference decided that the Prime Meridian, which runs through Greenwich, would be the starting point for timekeeping. The line runs through the Royal Observatory ...

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 ...

and describes the work done during the year at Greenwich and the various out-stations which together constitute the war-time Royal Observatory. Until the last-named date, no further damage by ...

Although today the Royal Observatory Greenwich, in south-east London, is an excellent museum, for almost 300 years the site was a centre for astronomical and navigational observations and research.

The award – now in its 16th year – is run by the Royal Observatory Greenwich in association with insurer Liberty Specialty Markets and BBC Sky at Night Magazine. The competition received over 3500 ...

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 ...