News

China has kicked off of a second phase of construction to enhance the capabilities of what is already the world's largest single-dish radio telescope. The Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical ...
China officially booted up its Five-hundred meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST) over the weekend, even though construction wrapped in 2016 and the telescope has already produced ...
China's FAST (Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope) is the largest radio telescope in the world, dwarfing the 1,000-foot (305-meter) Arecibo radio telescope in Puerto Rico.
The Five-hundred-metre Aperture Spherical Radio Telescope (FAST) in Pingtang, China as pictured on September 24, 2016. New research suggests that this, the world's largest radio telescope could ...
Arecibo's massive reflector dish, which is built inside a sinkhole in northern Puerto Rico, was damaged when a 3-inch diameter support cable unexpectedly snapped before dawn on Monday, according ...
The world's largest fully steerable radio telescope is under construction in northeast China's Jilin Province. Located in Huadian, Jilin, the radio telescope will be 120 meters in diameter and ...
This radio telescope, for decades the world’s largest, had operated for 57 years, withstanding numerous hurricanes—the last one a Category 4 storm, Hurricane María, which in 2017 damaged the ...
A signal detected by a Chinese telescope and originally reported as possible evidence of extraterrestrial intelligence is almost certainly due to human factors.
But now a second phase will add 24 new moveable radio telescopes, each with a diameter of 131 feet (40 meters). Construction officially started on Sept. 25, on the eighth anniversary of FAST's ...
China has kicked off of a second phase of construction to enhance the capabilities of what is already the world's largest single-dish radio telescope. The Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical ...