The prime meridian runs through the Royal Observatory at Greenwich, just outside London. Everywhere in the world measures time and distances from this line, which is marked on all world maps. On the ...

Receive emails about upcoming NOVA programs and related content, as well as featured reporting about current events through a science lens. The Prime Meridian was set in 1884 using the large Transit ...

Introduction: one line to rule the world -- Geographical confusion -- Absurd vanity : the world's prime meridians before c.1790 -- Declarations of independence: prime meridians in America, c.1784-1884 ...

The Prime Meridian is the imaginary line running between the North and South Poles that's used to indicate 0° longitude. It passes through Greenwich in southeast London, and is therefore sometimes ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

Some 250 years ago, a British astronomer published the first of a series of guidebooks that would ultimately establish Greenwich, England, as the world's zero-degree longitude location, the "prime ...

If you've ever been to the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, London, it might come as a shock to learn that the Prime Meridian line located there is in the wrong place. In fact, it's out by about 100 ...