On November 15, 1988, a 300-foot radio telescope in Green Bank, West Virginia suddenly collapsed. It happened at 9:46 p.m. on ...

A newly formed support group for the Green Bank Observatory, now under threat from planned “decommissioning and disposition” in the Trump administration’s fiscal year 2026 budget, will host a free ...

POCAHONTAS COUNTY, W.Va. (WCHS/WVAH) — When a group of scientists released the first image ever made of a black hole, captured by eight radio telescope observatories around the world, the world’s ...

A new book published by the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) tells the story of the founding and early years of the Observatory at Green Bank, West Virginia. “But it was Fun: the first ...

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A West Virginia University professor and the Green Bank Telescope have played major roles in a 15-year effort producing evidence of low-frequency gravitational waves pushing and pulling on the ...

Photographer Michael Soluri documents daily life at one of the world’s largest land-based movable structures At the National Radio Astronomy Observatory, situated in Green Bank WestVirginia in the ...

You get to the Green Bank Observatory by driving into the high mountains of West Virginia, on winding roads through narrow valleys and verdant forests, and when you're sure that you have reached the ...

FRANKLIN, W.Va. (WBOY) — Since it was established in 1958, the National Radio Quiet Zone (NRQZ) has limited wireless communication over Pendleton County and other remote parts of West Virginia in the ...

Nestled between mountains in a secluded corner of West Virginia, a giant awakens: the Green Bank Telescope begins its nightly vigil, scanning the cosmos for secrets. If intelligent life exists beyond ...