This year marks 350 years since The Royal Observatory in Greenwich was founded. Take a look at five astronomically great ...

February 5 is important as it was on this day in 1924 that Greenwich Time Signal was broadcast for the first time in history.

This is a screen capture from a very quick clip video showing the clock in action at the Royal Observatory in Greenwich. Take a look and you’ll get a glimpse of how large the device is.

If you watch the New Year’s festivities from New York, you know that they mark midnight with the dropping of a big, gaudy ...

In 1884, an international conference decided that the Prime Meridian, which runs through Greenwich, would be the starting point for timekeeping. The line runs through the Royal Observatory ...

Fleur Sax: This is the Royal Observatory Greenwich. Home of time. In 1884, it was decided that this line would be the point from which we set all of our clocks. Fleur Sax: When the sun passes over ...

First established by King Charles II and designed by Christopher Wren, The Royal Observatory in Greenwich Park was the first state-founded, purpose-built scientific institution in Britain.