In July 1969, Murriyang was the prime receiving station for the Apollo 11 mission to the Moon. It supported the Apollo 11 ...

Researchers using Murriyang, CSIRO's Parkes radio telescope, have detected unusual radio pulses from a previously dormant ...

After six decades during which it tracked lunar missions, spotted distant pulsars and quasars, and even expanded our concept of the size of the Universe, the Parkes telescope is still going strong.

She’s in the middle of a sheep paddock. Who is she? None other than the 64-meter Murriyang Telescope at Parkes Observatory.

The DSN's array of antennas, including the renowned 70-meter antenna, plays a pivotal role in space exploration by enabling communication with distant spacecraft. Its arraying technology and various ...

For close to 17 years, astronomers at Parkes Observatory in Australia searched ... The observatory is home to the country's best-known radio telescope, which is used to measure radio signals ...

Using a phenomenon known as gravitational lensing, it might be possible to use the sun as a gigantic telescope to peer deep into space. We have some incredibly powerful telescopes that have given ...

For over 20 years, the Very Large Telescope (VLT) has been the European Southern Observatory's (ESO) leading astronomical instrument. Despite the name, the Very Large Telescope is not one ...

Many people think a telescope’s purpose is to magnify images. Certainly manufacturers of inexpensive (read: cheap) telescopes love to market them as such: “150x power!” they print in huge ...