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A giant telescope in north-west England that helps scientists study deep space could be forced to stop its research work unless new funding is found. Jodrell Bank Observatory is home to the Lovell ...

The Jodrell Bank Observatory, which has housed the UK's largest telescope for nearly 70 years, has lost its funding and could now close, the BBC understands. The observatory and its network of ...

This live page is now closed, but you can read more in our news story Three people have been killed and four are injured in hospital following a shooting at the Seattle Center, according to Seattle ...

It's a sweet discovery that has the science world talking — and may help us better understand the origins of life on Earth. Earlier this month, a group of researchers in Spain uncovered sugar near the ...

A giant planet had been hiding inside one of astronomy’s most closely studied planetary systems, concealed by a bright disk of cosmic dust. Webb revealed Beta Pictoris d through atmospheric traces of ...

Interstellar biomolecules Erythrulose, the four-carbon sugar shown in this image, has been detected in a gas cloud near the centre of our galaxy. (Courtesy: Ashley Barnes, European Southern ...

The New Scientist Book Club has been reading Claire North’s space opera Slow Gods, in which a civilisation has to work out how to deal with a supernova that will kill everyone on a planet – but not ...

If you’ve ever heard “Space Oddity” by David Bowie, you know that the song chronicles an astronaut’s perilous journey to space. Ultimately, Major Tom (the astronaut) ends up getting lost in the ...