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 ...

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 ...

The Square Kilometre Array's (SKA) Science Data Processor (SDP) consortium has announced concluding its engineering design work -- a five year process to design one of two supercomputers that will be ...

The International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR), based in Perth, Western Australia, has been extended for another five years thanks to a $26M investment announced by WA Premier Colin ...

New Zealand’s astronomy community is reported to be making a last ditch effort to keep the country involved in the massive Square Kilometre Array (SKA) radio telescope project, but the Ministry of ...

The International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR), based in Perth, Western Australia has been extended for another five years thanks to a $26M investment announced by WA Premier Colin ...

As you might be able to tell by the name, the Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder (ASKAP) is a radio telescope. Because of ASKAP, Australia will be home to the next leap forward in radio ...

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 ...

The go-ahead has been given to build what will be the world’s largest radio telescope network. Last week the council of the Square Kilometre Array Observatory (SKAO) gave the green light to construct ...

Eye on the sky More than 130 Square Kilometre Array dishes will be added to the existing 64 of the SKA-precursor telescope MeerKAT to form a mid-frequency instrument. (Courtesy: South African Radio ...