Describing himself as a hybrid between an engineer and an accountant, astronomer Edward Walter Maunder (1851–1928) explodes the romantic myths and takes the reader on an entertaining tour of the ...

Learn what you could see in the night sky with no equipment from the Royal Observatory Greenwich; from galaxies and meteor ...

The Royal Observatory Greenwich is the home of Greenwich Mean Time and the Prime Meridian of the World. It is also home to London's only planetarium, the Harrison timekeepers and the UK's largest ...

According to the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, meteors of the Geminid meteor shower are very bright, moderately fast, and are unusual in being multi-coloured – mainly white, some yellow and a ...

A "spectacular" meteor shower is expected to light up the night sky this weekend. The Geminid shower, which is referred to as ...