A four-telescope facility in Chile’s Atacama Desert.
UKRI has announced it will end funding for the e-Merlin network at Jodrell Bank by March 2028 to focus on projects with longer-term impact. The Lovell Telescope and related research will be affected, risking 28 jobs and the work of about 3,000 researchers unless alternative funding is found.
Astronomers have detected helium escaping from LHS 1140b, a rocky 'super-Earth' 48 light-years away that orbits in its star's habitable zone. The finding has confirmed an atmosphere around a habitable-zone rocky exoplanet for the first time and has been published in Science; teams used ground-based infrared spectroscopy and modelling.