If you use your smartphone’s GPS to find Earth’s prime meridian – the north-south line marking zero degrees longitude – at Greenwich Observatory, you’ll notice something a bit odd. You won’t be ...

Good morning, I'm Renee Montagne. For years, visitors have stood on the stainless steel Greenwich Meridian Line thinking they were standing on the exact middle point between east and west. But they ...

The prime meridian has shifted a few hundred feet. An astronomer helped figure out why. In 1884, a delegation of international representatives convened in Washington, D.C. to recommend that Earth's ...

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

Scientists have explained why the Greenwich Meridian appears to have drifted substantially east (or to the right, if you stand in the park and face north). Now the big question is: should the marker, ...

The West versus the East and US vs China: these are political narratives or perhaps rivalries that most of us have heard about, hinted at by the news or other sources of information. But have you ever ...

A new Bremont timepiece includes a piece of history from Royal Observatory Greenwich. By Rachel Felder To create its newest watch, the English company Bremont acquired metal from an unlikely source: ...