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 ...

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 ...

The Square Kilometer Array Observatory will be able to look deeper into the Universe than any radio telescope before. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.

Africa’s bid to build and host the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) telescope – which will for the first time provide mankind with detailed pictures of the “dark ages” 13.7 billion years back in time – is ...

Next generation radio telescopes will require tremendous amounts of compute power. With the current state of the art, the Square Kilometer Array (SKA), currently entering its pre-construction phase, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...