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As it celebrates its 350th anniversary, Emily
How the world’s clocks and geographic coordinates came to be set by a small borough of London
The first Astronomer Royal plotted out the constellations and mapped the heavens
A few years ago, we bought my father a sundial. It was a decent 18th-century style reproduction in lead – something he had wanted for a very long time – and then, inevitably, he asked me to help him s
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 Dream Factory: London’s First Playhouse and the ...
‘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
