Ground excavation is now under way for the new CHIME radio telescope in Penticton, B.C. When completed, it will have a footprint larger than six NHL hockey rinks and enable scientists to attempt the ...

NASA is funding research into how a radio telescope could be built on the far side of the moon. It could function similarly to the Arecibo telescope, which collapsed in December. A lunar telescope ...

NASA engineers are studying the feasibility of building a massive, kilometre-wide radio telescope on the moon that would dwarf anything we could build on Earth. The telescope, which would be ...

Converting an entire crater on the far side of the Moon into a radio telescope could reveal secrets from the Universe's earliest moments. Escaping radio chatter on the far side of the Moon, a new ...

More than 9,000 people in southwest China will need to leave their homes in order to make space for the world's largest radio telescope. Residents living within five kilometres of the ...

An artist's impression of the Square Kilometre Array telescope in South Africa. (SKAO) When the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) Observatory goes online later this decade, it will create one of science’s ...

Astronomers in Chile have been building the world's most powerful telescope high up in the Atacama desert. The Alma (Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array) telescope facility involves the ...

State media also said it will be able to carry out observation in other cities such as Beijing, some 2,000 kilometres from the telescope site You can save this ...

China’s plan to build a radio telescope at the Félix Aguilar Astronomical Observatory in Argentina has been halted by President Javier Milei’s government, coinciding with a major US financial bailout.

The first pulsar was discovered in 1967 by Jocelyn Bell Burnell. Finding these mysterious signals forever changed astronomy.

A student who built a Lego version of the landmark Lovell telescope at Jodrell Bank with 30,500 bricks said it was the "most challenging build I've ever done but also the most fun". The observatory, ...