It is ready, set, go for the Square Kilometre Array (SKA), the world’s largest telescope. Construction officially began today in South Africa and Australia and will continue until 2027. This comes 10 ...

On 30 and 31 March a strategic international workshop on the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) will seek to identify the major economical and societal benefits of large-scale scientific research ...

A highly sensitive, next-generation radio observatory has started to come to life, with construction now officially underway on the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) in Australia and South Africa. The dual ...

IAC 2025 Work on the datacenter that serves the Square Kilometre Array’s (SKA’s) site in Western Australia is all but complete, including the installation of two Faraday cages to ensure the equipment ...

The Square Kilometre Array (SKA) project’s 2016 science conference, “Science for the SKA Generation,” has kicked off in Goa, India. Some 200 astronomers from around the globe have travelled to attend ...

The world's largest radio telescopes are being built in South Africa and Australia. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Breaking ...

Radio astronomy has long been unsung and underappreciated, largely because it's never been able to cough up the kind of jaw-dropping visual images that are routine with large optical telescopes. But ...

The world’s largest radio telescope is officially under construction in Australia, where work is underway on one component of what will be an intercontinental instrument. When operational in the late ...

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 ...

The SKA project is an international effort to build the world's largest radio telescope, which will eventually have over a square kilometre of collecting area. It's an international project that will ...