West Virginia, a monitoring site operated by the National Security Administration. Until 2016, the observatory operated the world's largest fully steerable radio telescope, the Robert C. Byrd Green ...

In this series, we cover provocative questions in astronomy. This week: the mysterious extragalactic signals known as Fast ...

Last summer, astronomer Calvin Leung was excited to analyze data from a newly built radio telescope. His goal was to pinpoint ...

Green Bank, West Virginia, a town in America that houses the biggest telescope in the world, and how the town needs to be ...

Astronomer Calvin Leung was excited last summer to crunch data from a newly commissioned radio telescope to precisely pinpoint the origin of repeated bursts of intense radio waves—so-called fast radio ...

Astronomers tracking mysterious fast radio bursts (FRBs) stumbled upon an unexpected cosmic puzzle. A burst was detected from ...

RAIL is a multidisciplinary group at WVU with Science and Engineering Research goals focused on Cosmology, Radio Transients, Instrumentation & Science Education ...

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 ...

CLARKSBURG, W.Va. (AP) — One person was taken to a hospital after an explosion in a West Virginia neighborhood and nearby homes were evacuated, officials said. The explosion happened Sunday in ...

Instead of finding the radio burst in a region of young stars, researchers traced its origin to the outskirts of a “dead” ...