“We’re taking a facility that has made landmark discoveries in astronomy for three decades and making it 10 times more powerful, at a cost that’s a fraction of its total value, by replacing outdated ...

New Mexico’s Plains of San Agustin are otherworldly: Silence, sand and sharp plants reign on the valley floor. Knobbly volcanic rock rises above. Pronghorns’ legs and jackrabbits’ ears break up the ...

SETI Institute Post-Doctoral Researchers, Dr Savin Varghese and Dr Chenoa Tremblay, in front of one of the 82-foot diameter dishes that makes up the Very Large Array. April 4, 2022, Mountain View, CA ...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) $23 million for design and development work on the Next Generation Very Large Array (ngVLA), including ...

The search for extraterrestrial civilizations has gotten a major boost as SETI joins forces with the National Science Foundation’s Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA) near Socorro, New Mexico. It ...

The Expanded Very Large Array (EVLA), part of the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO), took a giant step toward completion on August 7 with successful testing of advanced digital hardware ...

The National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) has selected a contractor to develop a production-ready design and produce a prototype antenna for the Next Generation Very Large Array (ngVLA). NRAO ...

VLA antennas are placed closely together to offer a wide view of the cosmos. In early July, we returned to the Southwest for a drive across New Mexico. During the second day, we stopped at the Karl G.

DATIL, N.M.--I'm standing in the middle of "the center of the known universe," as this room is sometimes called. And in a way, it feels like that's actually where I am. That's because I'm in the ...

The SETI Institute (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) is already the world's premier effort when it comes to looking for signs of life beyond Earth. But now, it's getting an even greater boost ...

April 4, 2022, Mountain View, CA – COSMIC SETI (the Commensal Open-Source Multimode Interferometer Cluster Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) took a big step towards using the National Science ...