Project Phoenix’ was initiated by small research organisation known as the SETI Institute. But it was lucky to get off the ...

The Allen Telescope Array (ATA) is the first radio telescope to be designed from the ground up to be used for SETI searches.Until its construction, all radio SETI efforts were dependent on the ...

But to push the boundaries of astronomy while planted solidly on the ground, Earth-bound observatories tend to be among the most extreme scientific facilities on the planet. This radio astronomy ...

A 40-meter-diameter radio telescope is put into use on Friday in Shigatse, Xizang autonomous region. Built by the Shanghai Astronomical Observatory under the Chinese Academy of Sciences ...

WHEN considering radio-transit telescopes, one ordinarily speaks in terms of instruments steerable in altitude. However, transit telescopes steered in azimuth have potentialities which should be ...

The Chinese are ready to open up a new radio telescope called FAST (Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Radio Telescope). As the name implies, it is 500 meters in diameter which is about 1,600 ...

The first trial of an Australian-developed technology has detected mysterious objects by sifting through signals from space like sand on a beach. Astronomers and engineers at CSIRO, Australia's ...

But for astronomers and stargazers using ground-based telescopes, the gas giant's seven rings are about to be unobservable for a short time from Earth's vantage. Why? Well, every 13-15 years ...