They propose the design of a Lunar Crater Radio Telescope (LCRT) on the far side of the Moon. They propose to deploy a wire mesh using wall-climbing DuAxel robots in a 3-5 km diameter crater, with a ...

NASA has selected a lunar-crater radio telescope idea to receive funding through its NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) program, the agency announced on Tuesday. The Phase I award goes to ...

Arecibo on the Moon. As early as the 1960s, astronomers wanted to build a radio telescope on the farside of the Moon.That’s because the lunar farside always faces away from Earth, which means ...

The lunar telescope would involve robots hanging wire mesh within a crater on the moon’s far side to create a radio telescope. Picture the famed yet now defunct Arecibo Observatory in Puerto ...

If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. NASA scientists dream up a way to turn a Moon crater into a massive radio telescope ...

NASA has awarded a grant to explore an ambitious plan that seeks to transform a crater on the far side of the Moon into a massive one-kilometer (3,281-foot) radio telescope. If it comes to ...

NASA has given out some new grants for innovative space projects. Perhaps the wildest of the chosen projects is a plan to put a radio telescope on the moon that could give us a glimpse of some of t… ...

Our telescopes on Earth and in space may one day welcome a new companion: a massive telescope on the moon. What's extra clever about the Lunar Crater Radio Telescope idea is that the LCRT would ...

NASA, which has now set aside half a million dollars to flesh out the concept of the Lunar Crater Radio Telescope (LCRT), thinks it would be best to set it up on the far side of the Moon.

This Lunar Crater Radio Telescope (LCRT), with 1km diameter, will be the largest filled-aperture radio telescope in the Solar System. LCRT could enable tremendous scientific discoveries in the field ...

Scientists want to build a radio telescope on the far side of the moon to help pull back the curtain on the mysteries surrounding the beginning of the universe. While not an official full-fledged ...