On 23 June 2025, the world will get a look at the first images from one of the most powerful telescopes ever built: the Vera ...

Featured on the main set of six stamps are the Airy Transit Circle Telescope; Flamsteed House; the Great Equatorial Telescope ...

The ESA/NASA Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) has officially discovered 5000 comets. Comet number 5000 was spotted ...

A set of 10 stamps to mark the history and achievements of the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, has been released by Royal Mail.

Copernicus Sentinel-2C snapped dramatic photos of the eruption just minutes after it began, providing a unique perspective on ...

City-sized droplets and twisting streams of plasma have been picked up by incredibly detailed images of the sun’s corona, ...

A group of astronomers from across the globe, including a team from the University of Washington and led by Queen's ...

Europe's most active volcano, Mount Etna on Sicily, is erupting again, sending a huge plume of ash and smoke into the air and ...

A computer simulation predicts that the Rubin Observatory will discover millions of previously undetected objects in the ...