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

A recent five-year study has uncovered new insights into the properties of yellow hypergiants, a heavy star class known for ...

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 ...

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), ...

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

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 ...

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 ...