1,000 year-old astrolabe

Such was George III’s passion for astronomy that he had an observatory built to observe the transit of Venus. Although his interest remains unrivalled, scientific curiosity gripped the Royal Family for centuries, as Matthew Dennison reveals

Since JWST’s launch four years ago, some mind-blowing observations have been made by this internationally operated, state-of-the-art, space-based super-telescope

DID YOU KNOW? JWST’s primary mirror weighs 705 kilograms ...

Thanks to a pair of eagle-eyed dog walkers, ...

THE ‘ENDANGERED’ HERITAGE CRAFT OF GLOBE MAKING IS ALIVE AND WELL IN LONDON. KATE YOUDE VISITS THE BELLERBY & CO STUDIO

From stargazing as a child to presenting the iconic The Sky At Night , Dame Maggie Aderin, 57, tells us how she beat the odds to become a space scientist, and why life beyond Earth matters to all of us