Nestled in the rolling green hills of the English countryside is an important site in global astronomical history. But now, ...

In 1967, the Royal Greenwich Observatory built a new tool — the Isaac Newton Telescope. The Isaac Newton Telescope was housed in its own new huge telescope dome (white this time), offset from ...

"The universe is filled with a range of three-body systems, including the closest stars to Earth, the Alpha Centauri star system, and we're finding that the Kuiper Belt may be no exception!" ...

The first direct visual evidence of the supermassive black hole in the centre of Messier 87 and its shadow. Event Horizon ...

the invention of the reflecting telescope described by James Gregory and built in a different form by Isaac Newton (Fig. 1b), and the invention of the achromatic doublet by John Dolland and others ...

Some people think that you have to choose between science and religion, but that is not the case. This is the story ...

Sir Isaac Newtons beer mug offers key clues about his work. Sir Issac Newton, best known for formulating the laws of motion and gravity, wrote about his revolutionary findings using homemade ink ...