Isolation dictates where we go to see into the far reaches of the universe. The Atacama Desert of Chile, the summit of Mauna Kea in Hawaii, the vast expanse of the Australian Outback—these are where ...

After Arecibo collapsed, radio astronomers faced a choice: rebuild the past, or build something radical. One bold idea is the Lunar Crater Radio Telescope—using a 3–5 km crater to hold a 1 km ...

Since the resolution of a telescope depends on the wavelength size, radio telescopes have to be huge. It would take a radio dish nearly 10 kilometers wide to get the resolution of a large optical ...

LAS CRUCES, N.M. (KRQE) – A student at New Mexico State University is showing how you can use pretty much anything to create something. Saul Hernandez made a radio telescope that can detect the ...

Using the MeerKAT telescope, astronomers have discovered a new odd radio circle that appears to be associated with an elliptical galaxy known as WISEA J021912.43–050501.8. The finding, which could ...

For radio astronomy, things get even better during the lunar night, when the sun drops beneath the horizon and is blocked by the moon’s mass. For up to 14 Earth-days at a time, a spot on the moon’s ...