Bottom line: A telescope ten times bigger than any other currently built is nearly ready for construction. The project is intended to affirm or disprove remaining questions against Einstein's theory ...

The Square Kilometer Array Observatory (SKAO) will soon be the largest radio telescope in the world. Construction on the array began this year and will take approximately eight years. It will consist ...

Next generation radio telescopes will require tremendous amounts of compute power. With the current state of the art, the Square Kilometer Array (SKA), currently entering its pre-construction phase, ...

The world’s largest radio telescope is officially under construction in Australia, where work is underway on one component of what will be an intercontinental instrument. When operational in the late ...

The South African MeerKAT radio telescope, currently being built some 90 km outside the small Northern Cape town of Carnarvon, is a precursor to the Square Kilometer Array (SKA) telescope The MeerKAT ...

Australian researchers using a CSIRO radio telescope in Western Australia have nearly doubled the known number of ‘fast radio bursts’— powerful flashes of radio waves from deep space. The team’s ...

An international team of scientists including Hans-Rainer Klöckner from the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy in Bonn and Dominik Schwarz from the University of Bielefeld have joined forces to ...

On 30 and 31 March a strategic international workshop on the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) will seek to identify the major economical and societal benefits of large-scale scientific research ...