The royal observatory greenwich an untold history

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

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

Driving up dusty mountain roads flanked by cacti and colourful bursts of wildflowers, it’s hard to imagine these quiet peaks in the Chilean Andes are home to some of the most sophisticated astronomica