New Mexico’s Plains of San Agustin are otherworldly: Silence, sand and sharp plants reign on the valley floor. Knobbly volcanic rock rises above. Pronghorns’ legs and jackrabbits’ ears break up the ...

The Very Large Array will look for artificially produced radio signals. Image: Bill Saxton, NRAO/AUI/NSF; Hubble Legacy Archive, ESA, NASA The SETI Institute said this week that the Very Large Array, ...

The Astronomy and Astrophysics Decadal Survey (Astro2020) of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences has published its report and the Next Generation Very Large Array (ngVLA) received high priority for ...

DISCOVERY OF REPEATING RADIO WAVES COMING FROM A NEIGHBORING STAR SYSTEM. AND NEW MEXICO’S VERY LARGE ARRAY PLAYED A KEY ROLE. SCIENTISTS LOOKING FOR PROTECTIVE MAGNETIC FIELDS LIKE THE ONE ON EARTH ...

DATIL, N.M.--I'm standing in the middle of "the center of the known universe," as this room is sometimes called. And in a way, it feels like that's actually where I am. That's because I'm in the ...

A new and uniquely powerful tool for cutting-edge science is emerging on the crisp, high desert of western New Mexico. Outwardly, it looks much the same as the famed Very Large Array (VLA), a radio ...

The Very Large Array (VLA) is a collection of 27 radio antennas located at the NRAO site in Socorro, New Mexico. Each antenna in the array measures 25 meters (82 feet) in diameter and weighs about 230 ...

Even if the National Radio Astronomy Observatory’s 33-year-old Very Large Array doesn’t sound familiar, it probably looks familiar: It was the backdrop to Jodie Foster’s work in Contact. Wonderfully, ...

The NSF's Very Large Array radio telescope is getting a digital makeover that will give it the sensitivity to pick up a cell phone signal on Jupiter, and to probe deeper into outer space The National ...

DATIL, N.M.--I spent a good part of Monday at what has to be one of the coolest astronomy sites in the world: the Very Large Array. I plan to post a full story and gallery on Wednesday, but for now, I ...

Artist's impression of the NRAO's ngVLA with a drawing of a hypothetical extrasolar earthlike planet in the background. For all the pretty pictures that optical telescopes have provided over the ...