This year marks the 80th anniversary of Jodrell Bank observatory. To celebrate, classical composer Hannah Peel has made some very special music.

Astronomers of the University of Manchester’s Jodrell Bank Observatory (UK) have led an international team which used the Parkes radio telescope in Australia to find a new kind of cosmic object which ...

The iconic radiotelescope at the Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics, a symbol of scientific progress in the UK since the launch of Sputnik in 1957, has been spared from closure, it emerged on ...

Plans for the world’s biggest telescope — the Square Kilometre Array — advanced significantly today (2nd April 2011) with a decision to locate the project office at Jodrell Bank Observatory near ...

INTRIGUING sounds foraged on a visit to the world’s third largest steerable radio telescope has inspired a unique composition.

The Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council has secured the future of Jodrell Bank Observatory by agreeing to further funding and an upgrade for the Cheshire site's role in the Merlin radio ...

Breakthrough Initiatives and The Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics at The University of Manchester announced a new partnership to search for evidence of intelligent life beyond Earth. Breakthrough ...

Jodrell Bank in Cheshire has been named a Unesco World Heritage site, joining the list of historic international sites such as Machu Picchu, the Great Wall of China and the Taj Mahal. The Cheshire ...

The first word about the latest Russian space feat came, as usual, not from a Moscow spokesman but from a greying British scientist. Astronomer Sir Bernard Lovell, 52, who used the University of ...

Tasked with installing a visitor's center that doesn't dominate the landscape at Jodrell Bank astronomical observatory in England, architecture studio Hassell took the approach of burying it near the ...