Scientists who want to study the Moon can’t just go there… but the Arizona desert has the next best thing: a crater stamped ...

Scientists are worried about rising radio interference from space. Large satellite networks, like SpaceX's Starlink, are ...

NASA is advancing plans to construct a radio telescope on the Moon's far side – a location uniquely shielded from the ...

NASA is moving forward with an ambitious vision to place a radio telescope on the far side of the Moon, in a remote lunar ...

NASA scientists are currently working on plans to build a giant radio telescope in a nearly mile-wide crater on the "dark side" of the moon. If approved, it could be constructed as early as the 2030s ...

The Lunar Crater Radio Telescope (LCRT) is currently in the planning phase but could soon become a reality if it passes the final checks and receives full funding. | Credit: NASA/Vladimir ...

In particular, NASA, China, and the ESA have proposed creating radio astronomy experiments ... surface (fewer craters and boulders present). The study also focused on the moon's southern polar ...

The idea behind the project, named the Lunar Crater Radio Telescope, is to find a suitable crater and use it as the support structure for a gigantic, kilometer-wide telescope. This idea isn’t ...

NASA scientists dream up a way to turn a Moon crater into a massive radio telescope. The concept relies on a large crater on the far side of the Moon, a pair of lunar landers, and a small army of ...

To spread, where appropriate, the electrical net of a radio telescope to probe the ... Most of the crater was in the cave-dark lunar night. But the mountain top was sun-lit. I imagined standing ...

the Lunar Crater Radio Telescope (L.C.R.T.), inside a 1.3-kilometre-wide moon crater. A lander would touch down at the center and shoot harpoons at the rim. Wire mesh would then unfold along the ...