Hundreds of inexpensively made antennae tuned into the cosmos look for radio waves from potentially habitable planets at Caltech’s Owens Valley Radio Observatory near Big Pine, California.

The Planet Hunting Machine

Oct. 14, 2019

From Alta: Sometime in the next decade, NASA hopes to deploy a rover to the dark side of the moon, where it will roll out 128 small, lightweight radio antennae in a flower configuration over 100 square kilometers of the lunar dirt. The FARSIDE project is designed to look for...

Owens Valley Radio Observatory in California hosts the LEDA experiment

Physicists in Earth’s Remotest Corners Race to Reproduce ‘Cosmic Dawn’ Signal

May 2, 2018

From Nature: Researchers are heading to some of the most remote spots on Earth — from the ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ Plateau to an island in the sub-Antarctic ocean — to try to capture an enigmatic radio signal from the early Universe. This grand search, which could even involve a mission to the...

Illuminating the Cosmic Dawn with Sky-Average Radio Measurements

February 2, 2018 Raul Monsalve