The Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Telescope (FAST), located in China, is currently the world's largest single-dish ...

The world's largest fully steerable radio telescope is under construction in northeast China's Jilin Province.Located in ...

Now that looks set to change thanks to the work of Jack Phelps, who has published the design of a radio telescope that anybody can build in their backyard for a few hundred dollars. In principle, ...

With modern electronics, it is relatively easy to build your own radio telescope. To understand how it can be done, check out a recent paper by Jack Phelps posted to the arXiv preprint server.

Foil-lined foam insulation board, scraps of lumber, and a paint-thinner can hardly sound like the tools of a radio astronomer. But when coupled with an SDR, a couple of amplifiers, and a fair ...