One of the world's most powerful radio telescope arrays is joining the hunt for signals from other galactic civilizations. The National Science Foundation's Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA), ...

Astronomers and officials from around the globe gathered on the high desert of New Mexico Saturday to officially bestow a new name on the world's most famous radio telescope and to mark its ...

Artist's impression of the NRAO's ngVLA with a drawing of a hypothetical extrasolar earthlike planet in the background. For all the pretty pictures that optical telescopes have provided over the ...

The Very Large Array (VLA) is a collection of 27 radio antennas located at the NRAO site in Socorro, New Mexico. Each antenna in the array measures 25 meters (82 feet) in diameter and weighs about 230 ...

The Astronomy and Astrophysics Decadal Survey (Astro2020) of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences has published its report and the Next Generation Very Large Array (ngVLA) received high priority for ...

DISCOVERY OF REPEATING RADIO WAVES COMING FROM A NEIGHBORING STAR SYSTEM. AND NEW MEXICO’S VERY LARGE ARRAY PLAYED A KEY ROLE. SCIENTISTS LOOKING FOR PROTECTIVE MAGNETIC FIELDS LIKE THE ONE ON EARTH ...

DATIL, N.M.--I spent a good part of Monday at what has to be one of the coolest astronomy sites in the world: the Very Large Array. I plan to post a full story and gallery on Wednesday, but for now, I ...