Foil-lined foam insulation board, scraps of lumber, and a paint-thinner can hardly sound like the tools of a radio astronomer. But when coupled with an SDR, a couple of amplifiers, and a fair ...

NASA is planning a groundbreaking mission: building a massive radio telescope on the far side of the Moon. Discover how this lunar telescope will explore the universe’s origins, detect ancient ...

Of course, you could build your own, although to get up to 500 meters might be a stretch. If your backyard isn’t that big, you can build a tiny radio telescope too.

The first trial of an Australian-developed technology has detected mysterious objects by sifting through signals from space ...

An curved arrow pointing right. China just finished building the world's largest radio telescope. The 500-Meter Aperture Spherical Telescope, or FAST, will allow China to detect radio signals from ...

Therefore, we want to build the largest telescopes possible. The largest single-dish radio telescope in the world is an impressive 500 metres across. However, instead of building increasingly large ...