A NASA-funded plan to build a large radio telescope on the moon's far side is nearing final approval and could become a reality by the 2030s, researchers say. The ambitious project will help ...

By the end of 2026, the array is planned to expand to 68 working stations at which point it will be the the most sensitive low-frequency radio telescope on Earth. This phase will be the next big ...

Microwave oven created mystery signals that interfered with a radio telescope. — -- For 17 years, a team of astronomers were baffled by a common microwave oven. When mysterious radio signals ...

The plains house the aptly named Very Large Array (VLA)—a radio telescope made of 27 different antennas, each of which looks like a home satellite dish on steroids.

The radio telescope's image of it was also very fuzzy, which, like with a normal camera, indicated that the source was actually very, very close, not in a distant galaxy, ...

LOFAR is the largest radio telescope operating at the lowest frequencies that can be detected from Earth. The pulse first appeared in LOFAR data in 2015, and after finding its first instance, ...

A fresh analysis of a decade's worth of Hubble Space Telescope observations shows Uranus takes 17 hours, 14 minutes and 52 seconds to complete a full rotation — 28 seconds longer than the ...

When I was a kid, I was fascinated by the Powers of 10 video, which came out in the 1970s.Perhaps you remember it, with the narrator taking us both outward toward the fathomless end of the ...

The telescope recorded the ultrahigh energy neutrino in February 2023. But researchers needed two years to interpret and analyze the data, during which time they swung between elation and skepticism.