A newly formed support group for the Green Bank Observatory, now under threat from planned “decommissioning and disposition” in the Trump administration’s fiscal year 2026 budget, will host a free ...

GREEN BANK, W.Va. (WDBJ) - Five members of the Green Bank Observatory team have spent the week dodging polar bears, climbing glaciers and dismantling a giant telescope in the Arctic Circle. The team ...

GREEN BANK, W.Va. — Ellie White and her mother Deana White were advocating for Green Bank Observatory when they were approached about being in a documentary about the facility. Ellie White, who ...

A new book published by the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) tells the story of the founding and early years of the Observatory at Green Bank, West Virginia. “But it was Fun: the first ...

On November 15, 1988, a 300-foot radio telescope in Green Bank, West Virginia suddenly collapsed. It happened at 9:46 p.m. on a clear night with no strong winds. When the observatory staff showed up ...

A West Virginia University professor and the Green Bank Telescope have played major roles in a 15-year effort producing evidence of low-frequency gravitational waves pushing and pulling on the ...

You get to the Green Bank Observatory by driving into the high mountains of West Virginia, on winding roads through narrow valleys and verdant forests, and when you're sure that you have reached the ...

A West Virginia University researcher is paving the way for two-year community and technical college students to pursue astrophysics and astronomy at four-year institutions like WVU. The project, ...