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The Royal Observatory Greenwich celebrates its 351st anniversary today. Founded by King Charles II on June 22, 1675, the observatory was tasked with solving “the longitude problem,” the lack of ...

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Greenwich's Royal Observatory is improving access to its buildings and creating new educational and events spaces in a £77m project. A lift tower will be built to the Great Equatorial Telescope, which ...

The famed Royal Observatory in Greenwich, United Kingdom, is reopening more than 60 years after London’s smog forced its closure in 1957. By the 1940s and 1950s, London’s industrialization—which ...

Early one June morning last year, British photographer James Rushforth captured something incredible: the comet NEOWISE streaking through the night sky above Stonehenge, itself lit up by the lights of ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Happily telling stories about travel and discovery around the world. Everyone knows the name Greenwich. “Gren-itch,” not ...

The rise of AI tools that instantly answer questions and complex problems could make humans less intelligent, the Royal Observatory Greenwich has warned. The Observatory, one of the UK's oldest ...

This as-told-to essay is based on a transcribed conversation with Tom Kerss, a freelance astronomer from London, about his career path. It has been edited for length and clarity. It took me three ...

To keep communications secure in a post-quantum world, cryptographers are digging down into the concept of cause and effect. Matt von Hippel The Universe Is Full of ‘Impossible’ Black Holes.

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