Due to severe wind gusts caused by Storm Bert, the Royal Observatory, Peter Harrison Planetarium and Greenwich Park will be closed on Sunday 24 November. If you had tickets booked for Sunday, you will ...

Why are there 12 months in the year? Julius Caesar's astronomers explained the need for 12 months in a year and the addition of a leap year to synchronize with the seasons. At the time, there were ...

Due to severe wind gusts caused by Storm Bert, the Royal Observatory, Peter Harrison Planetarium and Greenwich Park will be closed on Sunday 24 November. If you had tickets booked for Sunday, you will ...

The seasons are divisions of the year which relate to the annual changes in the weather. There are four seasons; spring, summer, autumn and winter. The seasons relate to weather patterns in parts of ...

People have travelled by sea using ships and boats for centuries. The Egyptians, Greeks and Phoenicians made some of the earliest vessels. For thousands of years, people have wanted to move on the ...

Greenwich was once home to thousands of swash-buckling former sailors, some missing a limb or an eye but still wild men of the sea at heart. Just as Chelsea Hospital was built for soldiers who had ...

The Royal Observatory Greenwich camera obscura is housed in a small summerhouse in the Meridian Courtyard. There have been a number of camera obscuras at Greenwich, dating from the late 17th century ...

Neither the smallest nor the largest objects in the known Universe escaped the brilliant Hooke’s attention. By the mid-17th century, much of what underpinned Western thought was being questioned and ...

The world of astronomy is an exciting one, and there are many career paths that can be taken into this fantastic branch of science. Take a look at our tips below to help you decide if astronomy is the ...

One of England's most-famous monarchs, Queen Elizabeth I (1533-1603) rebuilt England’s standing in the world. Elizabeth I came to the throne on the death of her half-sister, Mary I, on 17 November ...

It takes Venus longer to rotate once on its axis than to complete one orbit of the Sun. That’s 243 Earth days to rotate once – the longest rotation of any planet in the Solar System – and only 224.7 ...

The Quadrantid meteor shower will peak on 4 January 2025. The total period of this shower is from 26 December 2024 – 12 January 2025. What is the Quadrantid meteor shower? The Quadrantid meteor shower ...