France has established the Extreme Computing Lab for Astronomical Telescopes, to handle the significant computing challenges ...

The Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder (ASKAP) telescope is being developed on a site at Boolardy in Western Australia. The telescope project hopes to bring the much larger SKA project to ...

Observatory (SKAO) has announced that France has become the international organisation’s fourteenth member. French President ...

Data gathered by scientists at the Square Kilometre Array has resulted in a new "map" detailing the magnetic web of our ...

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 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 ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The largest science facility on Earth just hit a big milestone on the road from concept to ...

But exactly what will this telescope do? And what are the scientific questions that it one day may be able to answer? The SKA will be 50 times more sensitive and 10,000 faster than the best radio ...

The International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR), a joint venture between Curtin University and The University of Western Australia, has announced that software prototyped for the Square ...

Scientists from South Africa are playing a leading role in developing the science which will be done with the world’s largest telescope, the Square Kilometre Array. The SKA telescope, to be built in ...

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 Square Kilometre Array (SKA) radio telescope has been on the cards since the early 1990s. It took until May of last year to find out where it will be built – in South Africa, Australia and New ...