Who really invented the telescope?

In a remote mountain range in Chile, a newly unveiled observatory will soon begin mapping the sky. When its survey starts, the Vera C Rubin Observatory will spend every night for the next decade chart

The King’s Observatory, Kew, London The home of Robbie Brothers

This month marks the 350th anniversary of the Royal Observatory Greenwich, a cornerstone of modern astronomical science. Founded in 1675, this grand institution is known as the home of Greenwich Mean

Modern science is inextricably linked to mathematics. I’m not just referring to numbers here – for example numerical measurements of things like time, speed and energy – although that’s an important p

‘The universe is a pretty big place. If it’s just us, it seems like an awful waste of space,’ wrote the American astronomer and author Carl Sagan in his book, Contact. Ever since humans first huddled

The first Astronomer Royal plotted out the constellations and mapped the heavens