In north London, a fully functioning set of proper science-discovering telescopes offers tours to the public who fancy a ...

From sundials to atomic clocks, London's Royal Observatory explores the timepieces that helped shape the world ...

Near the Moon's western limb lies Oceanus Procellarum, the Ocean of Storms - a vast swath of terrain spanning 1,600 miles (2,500 kilometers) north to south, and covering 10.5 percent of the lunar ...

In anticipation of the upcoming equinox at Saturn, the imaging science team on NASA’s Cassini spacecraft is releasing today a series of images and movies capturing scenes possible only once every 15 ...

Students and staff at UCL’s teaching observatory, the University of London Observatory, have spotted one of the closest supernovae to Earth in recent decades. At 19:20 GMT on 21 January, a team of ...

An astrophotographer has captured a spectacular image showing a "giant" explosion at the sun's surface. Miguel Claro captured the image of a coronal mass ejection (CME) in February 2022. It has now ...

Students and staff at UCL's teaching observatory, the University of London Observatory, have spotted one of the closest supernova to Earth in recent decades. At 19:20 GMT on 21 January, a team of ...