Brookhaven National Laboratory has completed the "major item of equipment" phase for the Lunar Surface Electromagnetics ...

A NASA-funded plan to build a large radio telescope on the moon's far side is nearing final approval and could become a reality by the 2030s, researchers say. The ambitious project will help ...

Chinese scientists plan to build a massive radio telescope array on the far side of the Moon by 2035. The project involves constructing 7,200 butterfly-shaped wire antennas arranged in a circular ...

Before either of those ambitious projects actually break lunar ground, two more small radio telescopes will launch to the Moon in 2026. One is a second, upgraded version of ROLSES.

Its other goal is to simply prove that a radio telescope could work on the Moon “These are all kinds of multi-billion dollar projects that I think are, in some sense, ...

Not having an ionosphere, the Moon is ideal for radio astronomy of the universe on frequencies below 10 megahertz. In addition, ...

The Moon is uniquely suitable for researchers to build telescopes they can’t put on Earth because it doesn’t have as much satellite interference as Earth, nor a magnetic field blocking out ...

The Odysseus spacecraft made a rough landing on the moon last year, toppling over and rendering much of its equipment unusable, but an onboard NASA radio telescope called ROLSES-1 was able to make ...

The lunar occultation of Saturn as seen by the Virtual Telescope Project in Manciano, Italy on Jan. 4, 2025. (Image credit: Gianluca Masi/The Virtual Telescope Project) ...