Using the world’s largest, fully steerable radio telescope — the National Science Foundation’s Robert C. Byrd Green Bank Telescope (GBT) in W.Va. — an international team of researchers has given ...

Scientists have calculated that measurements by radio telescope arrays of the light emitted by hydrogen in distant galaxies should lead to more accurate estimates of the Universe’s curvature. Although ...

When the Cape Mendocino earthquake struck on April 25, 1992, magnitude was not the only parameter of interest to seismologists. Until Charles Richter developed a magnitude scale, the primary method of ...