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In August 2015 a paper was published by scientists in the US explaining why the Prime Meridian at the Royal Observatory Greenwich is 102 metres to the west of the prime meridian used by satellite based navigation and timekeeping, known as the International Reference Meridian or IRM. The paper created quite a stir in the media.

If, like me, you've enjoyed reading about Darwin recently then you'll know that this year marks the 200th anniversary of Charles Darwin's birth and the 150th anniversary of the publication of On the Origin of Species. But you may not have read that here, at the National Maritime Museum, we hold many important artifacts relating to Darwin and his works including some superb watercolours showing Darwin's expedition by, the official artist on board the Beagle, Conrad Martens.

If you don't have an accurate clock to tell the time with, you can use a celestial one-like the moon.

Between 2006 and 2012, the Cutty Sark Trust undertook an ambitious conservation project to save the last remaining tea clipper. Recollections is a series of short interviews with key people who worked on the project.

One of the wonderful things about working here is being bombarded with questions that wrack the brain and start an ongoing research relationship with the chosen topic. Such are the Button Boys - the daredevils of the mast displays carried out by naval training establishments.

Join us behind the scenes at Cutty Sark. Today we catch up with Adminstrations Officer Alex.

This zig-zag clock - a rare object from the Second World War, now on display at Royal Observatory Greenwich - was part of a Top Secret, and incredibly dangerous, defence tactic used by Allied convoys throughout the Battle of the Atlantic, the fiercest naval struggle in modern history.

We're very excited to announce that to coincide with the opening of Visions of the Universe - the upcoming exhibition at the National Maritime Museum - Pandemonium Press are publishing The Lowest Heaven, a new anthology of contemporary science fiction.

The books that make up this collection are bound in wood taken from the wreck of the Royal George.