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The origin of organic matter found in meteorites that formed during the birth of the Solar System 4.5 billion years ago may provide key clues to understanding the birth of life here on Earth.   ...

The Royal Society is awarding Professor Danielle George the prestigious Michael Faraday Prize. ...

Her Royal Highness Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn of Thailand yesterday (5 July), visited Jodrell Bank Observatory to celebrate the close links between her country and The University of Manchester in astronomy. ...

Astronomers have, for the first time, captured the moment the gravity of a supermassive black hole ripped apart a star that drifted too close to causing a fast-moving jet of cosmic material and energy to be ejected. ...

An international team of astronomers have discovered an unusual laser emission that suggests the presence of a double star system hidden at the heart of the “spectacular” Ant Nebula.   ...

Scientists agree the sun will die in approximately five billion years, but they weren’t sure what would happen next…until now. ...

A machine learning approach for assessing images of the craters and dunes of Mars, which was developed at The University of Manchester, has now been adapted to help scientists measure the effects of treatments on tumours. ...

Physicists from The University of Manchester have a come step close to answering one of sciences biggest questions - why is our Universe made of matter?  ...

Something unusual will happen on January 31. A total lunar eclipse, which will be visible from Asia, Australasia and North and Central America, will coincide with a “blue moon” and a “supermoon” in what some are calling a “super blue blood moon”. The...

The star TRAPPIST-1 with three of its planets. ESO/M. Kornmesser/N. Risinger (skysurvey.org), CC BY-SA Eamonn Kerins, University of Manchester The seafaring explorers of the 16th century famously found many new homes for humanity in faraway...

On the 60th anniversary of when the Lovell Telescope was first used to collect radio signals from the Universe, six structures at Jodrell Bank Observatory have been listed, including The Mark II Telescope which has been given Grade I listing, the hig...

Scientists have revealed that some of Earth’s atmosphere may have been brought to the planet by comets billions of years ago.   ...

Minister of State for Universities, Science, Research and Innovation, Jo Johnson MP, learnt more about the UK’s role in cutting-edge space exploration yesterday (9 February) as he toured The University of Manchester’s Jodrell Bank Observatory and the...

University of Manchester scientists are preparing for the first ever UK-led meteorite hunting expedition to Antarctica, where they will seek out the 'lost’ meteorites of the icy continent, which could provide clues to planetary creation. ...

Scientists from The University of Manchester working on a revolutionary telescope project have harnessed the power of distributed computing from the UK’s GridPP collaboration to tackle one of the Universe’s biggest mysteries – the nature of dark matt...

Sir Isaac Newton was famously sitting under an apple tree, when a falling apple inspired his revolutionary theories about gravity. Today, seeds from that very same apple tree have been collected and are being sent to specially selected Science Centre...

Researchers from The University of Manchester have won a major award in Europe’s biggest space technology innovation competition.  ...

The new SKA Global Headquarters at Jodrell Bank – an extension of the current facilities to house more staff as the project ramps up – has been approved by the local planning authority. Cheshire East Council has approved the application for the er...

A team of astronomers from the University of Manchester, the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy and the University of Bonn have uncovered a hidden stellar birthplace in a nearby spiral galaxy, using a telescope in Chile. The results show that t...

Metrolink customers will be transported to another world on their journey during this week’s City of Science Festival (22-29 July), thanks to a collaboration with The University of Manchester’s School of Physics and Astronomy. ...

A Professor of Astrophysics from The University of Manchester has teamed up with two acclaimed music producers to create a unique composition using sounds from space, which is now being released as a limited edition 7” single. Tim O’Brien, who is ...

Astronomers have detected a sub-stellar object that used to be a star, after being consumed by its white dwarf companion. An international team including Dr. Rene Breton, a Marie Curie Fellow at The University of Manchester’s School of Physics & A...

The World’s first motion picture of our Universe - which is being dubbed the ‘greatest movie ever made’ - is to be produced by astronomers from across the world, including The University of Manchester. The film, which could feature dangerous asteroid...

A team of astronomers from The University of Manchester, together with collaborators from the Centro de Astrobiología and the Deep Space Network, Spain and the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, have detected a rare gas 4000 light years away fr...

An historic milestone in British space exploration will be shared by experts and guests at The University of Manchester’s Jodrell Bank as part of a planned special BBC broadcast. ...

Jodrell Bank Discovery Centre will be part of the exciting new Destination Space programme. ...

Tim O’Brien, Professor of astrophysics at The University of Manchester, explains why finding liquid water on Mars is such an important discovery and what it means. “This is a truly exciting discovery. We have known there are features on the planet...

Tim O’Brien, Professor of astrophysics at The University of Manchester, explains why the lunar eclipse coming up is so special. “There are several lunar eclipses every year, where the earth’s shadow is cast on to the moon making it appear to turn ...

A spectacular collision between galaxies has been spotted near the Milky Way. Two small star systems are slamming into each other, producing a colourful firework display. ...

Astronomers are predicting a close encounter between a stellar remnant the size of a city and one of the brightest stars in the Milky Way. The small object, a pulsar, was initially discovered by NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope. Dedicated fo...