An aerospace technology firm has secured a £500,000 investment to accelerate its development of space launch guidance systems ...

The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (Lisa) project will use lasers, routed through optical benches made at the Royal ...

The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (Lisa) project will use lasers, routed through optical benches made at the Royal Observatory Edinburgh site, to measure gravitational waves. These waves are tiny ...

New lab spaces will be constructed at the UK Astronomy Technology Centre (UK ATC), which is based at the Royal Observatory Edinburgh on Blackford Hill. The laboratory, funded by the UK government ...

Although today the Royal Observatory Greenwich, in south-east London, is an excellent museum, for almost 300 years the site was a centre for astronomical and navigational observations and research.

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

Patrick Moore looks around the night sky through George Hole's 24-inch telescope at Patcham and the 36-inch telescope at the Royal Observatory, Edinburgh. Weather permitting, it is hoped to obtain ...