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 ...

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 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 ...

The First Light Exhibition at Jodrell Bank Observatory narrates the history of radio astronomy and its impact on exploring the universe. Here, innovative experiential technology brings 50 years of ...

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 ...

The secret Cold War role played by a giant radio telescope in the middle of the Cheshire countryside has been revealed. Jodrell Bank Observatory monitored Soviet missiles as nuclear tensions between ...

Alfred Charles Bernard Lovell, born August 31, 1913, pursued a career in physics, completing his PhD in 1936. Following WWII, Lovell utilized surplus radar equipment to establish a radio astronomy ...

The dish picked up radio signals from missile launches thousands of miles away [BBC] The secret Cold War role played by a giant radio telescope in the middle of the Cheshire countryside has been ...

This year marks the 80th anniversary of Jodrell Bank observatory. It's an enormous radio telescope in Cheshire which has been helping scientists to study space for decades. To celebrate, classical ...

Located in a rural area of northwest England, free from radio interference, Jodrell Bank is one of the world's leading radio astronomy observatories. At the beginning of its use, in 1945, the property ...