Some time this week, the newest NASA satellite is scheduled to perform a complex series of operations in orbit. If all goes well, Radio Astronomy Explorer-A will unreel a collection of booms and ...

On January 10, 1946, the U.S. army bounced radar signals off of Earth's moon for the first time ever. Known as "Project Diana ...

In the high desert of New Mexico, a few hours southwest of Albuquerque, is the Very Large Array, or VLA for short. It’s the largest telescope in the world, using 27 individual antenna to listen to the ...

Thanks to the Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Solid State Physics (IAF) and the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy, ...

(CNN) — Astronomers in Australia picked up a strange radio signal in June 2024 — one near our planet and so powerful that, for a moment, it outshined everything else in the sky. The ensuing search for ...

Large radio telescope systems are pivotal instruments in modern astronomy and related fields, as they enable the capture of faint cosmic signals and support various high-resolution observational ...

The stars are aligning for Albuquerque to play a central role in some of the world’s largest space-observation missions, including the Next-Generation Very Large Array and the Smithsonian’s ...