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 ...

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 ...

Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own. Jamie Carter is an award-winning reporter who covers the night sky. Venus is shining brightly over the European Southern Observatory's La ...

Ryan Imperio has been named the Royal Observatory Greenwich’s Astronomy ... thanks to the ionization of gases by the blue giant star Persei. Neal White, a prize judge and an artist, said Mr ...

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 ...

To combat an exhaustive list of search engine options for a fun-filled day out in Greenwich, we asked Chat GPT to summarise the best tourist spots.

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