Even radio telescopes need a roomba sometimes. Chinese authorities announced recently that a handful of "smart" robots have been inspected and approved for use in the upkeep of China's Five ...

According to Business Insider, the signals were discovered by China’s 500-meter Aperture Spherical Radio Telescope (FAST,) the only giant, single-dish, radio telescope in the world.

Measuring 305 meters (~1000 ft) in diameter, Arecibo's spherical reflector dish was the largest radio telescope in the world ...

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 ...

A telescope located in China, called FAST (Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Radio Telescope), while designed specifically as a traditional radio telescope, has been theorized to be able to ...

Time to power up the largest radio telescope in the world. China’s Five-hundred-metre Aperture Spherical Telescope, or FAST, began spying on outer space on 25 September. FAST will measure radio ...

State media outlet Science and Technology Daily (via ChinaTechCity) says the country’s Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Telescope, or FAST, will begin looking for alien signals in September.

If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. China spent five years and close to $200 million to build its Five-hundred-meter ...

It's possible that the activity detected by the 500-meter Aperture Spherical Telescope (FAST) could just be radio interference, but a deeper investigation is required. In undergrad I was the guy ...