With modern electronics, it is relatively easy to build your own radio telescope. To understand how it can be done, check out ...

Foil-lined foam insulation board, scraps of lumber, and a paint-thinner can hardly sound like the tools of a radio astronomer. But when coupled with an SDR, a couple of amplifiers, and a fair ...

Any radio telescope on the moon's back end would pick up the pure emissions of the universe. That's why Burns wants to build a 6-mile-wide windmill-shaped array of more than 100 radio antennas on ...

Of course, you could build your own, although to get up to 500 meters might be a stretch. If your backyard isn’t that big, you can build a tiny radio telescope too.