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If you're annoyed that your pocket compass doesn't point exactly to true north, then head for Greenwich, England, where magnetic north and true north are synching over the next two weeks for the first ...

Near the small town of Herstmonceux in the English county of East Sussex sits the former home of the Royal Greenwich Observatory. The Royal Observatory Greenwich was first built in Greenwich, London, ...

"We’re made of bits of dead stars." London -- After a 60-year hiatus, astronomers at the Royal Observatory Greenwich in London are studying the sky again. The observatory, which is home to the Prime ...

For 300 years, the Royal Observatory at Greenwich Park in London was the center of the scientific world, in some cases literally—the Prime Meridian, the line of 0 degrees longitude dividing the ...

June 22 marks the 350th anniversary of the Royal Observatory Greenwich, the home of the historic Prime Meridian and considered by many to be the birthplace of modern astronomy. To celebrate, we're ...