This year marks 350 years since The Royal Observatory in Greenwich was founded. Take a look at four astronomically great ...

The European Southern Observatory (ESO) has released a stunning 80 million-pixel image of the star cluster RCW 38, as captured by ESO's Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope for Astronomy (VISTA), ...

A new determination of the parallax of Proxima Centauri, the star closest to the sun, gives 0.763" ± 0.007", in good agreement with the previously accepted figure of 0.762" ± 0.005" this should ...

Watch ‘The Sky Tonight Live’, presented by an astronomer, to find out what is in the stars for the month ahead. Whimsical, but also super fascinating. While you’re at the Royal Observatory ...

Is a brighter star closer to Earth than another ... NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory will soon begin scanning the southern hemisphere sky every night for ten years, covering the entire ...

Vatican Observatory director Jesuit Brother Guy Consolmagno explores faith and science in his new book, “A Jesuit’s Guide to ...

Early astronomers produced the first accurate star catalogues there, and made key discoveries, such as identifying the moons of Mars. Today, the Royal Observatory continues to inspire and educate ...

We asked an astronomer what you can see from London in the night sky this month – and one of them is incredibly rare.

Herstmonceux Observatory, formerly owned by the Royal Observatory Greenwich, has been owned by Queen's University in Canada since the 1990s and leased to the Observatory Science Centre.