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 ...

Later this year, a prototype telescope is slated to land on the moon. It could usher in a new era of lunar radio astronomy.

The Parkes dish is known affectionately as the grand old lady of astronomy. The stately dowager has launched the research ...

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 ...

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 ...

A key method of forming planets finally has observational evidence, thanks to a network of radio telescopes in the U.K. that have resolved the existence of a huge abundance of centimeter-sized pebbles ...

Building the Jodrell Bank Telescope. Revised and updated edition. Bernard Lovell. Praeger Publishers. New York, 1987. 300 pp. $14.95 PS. The revised and updated version of Bernard Lovell’s 1968 book ...

Introduction -- Origins of Jodrell Bank -- Growth -- Fairground -- First large aerials -- Radio astronomy -- Dreams -- New start -- Lobbying -- Land troubles ...