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Radar Images Provide Details on Halloween Asteroid

November 3, 2015 at 6:55 pm | News Release

GBT radar images reveal new details of asteroid.

NSF Grant to NRAO and WVU

October 12, 2015 at 1:15 pm | News Release

NSF grant to NRAO and WVU expands Pulsar Search Collaboratory.

Artist's conception of a pulsar and white dwarf

Gravitational Constant Appears Universally Constant, Pulsar Study Suggests

August 6, 2015 at 6:08 pm | News Release

GBT helps study gravity in distant star system.

Green Bank Telescope Joins ‘Breakthrough Listen’

July 20, 2015 at 11:30 am | News Release

GBT receives funding to join search for intelligent life in Universe.

Animation of radar images of asteroid 2015 HM10

Image Release: Radar Observations Shine New Light on Near-Earth Asteroid

July 14, 2015 at 1:00 pm | News Release

Summer school astronomers image near-Earth asteroid.

Artist's impression of pulsar PSR J1930-1852

Pulsar with Widest Orbit Ever Detected

May 1, 2015 at 3:00 pm | News Release

Students using the GBT discover pulsar with amazingly wide orbit around neutron star.

Race to Detect Gravitational Waves Advances: New NANOGrav Physics Frontiers Center

March 30, 2015 at 2:30 pm | News Release

GBT to join the hunt for gravity waves as NSF awards NANOGrav PFC.

Image Release: Venus Revealed in Radio Light

March 9, 2015 at 7:00 pm | News Release

GBT partners with Arecibo to reveal the hidden surface of Venus.

Image Release: High-Def Radar Images of Near-Earth Asteroid

January 30, 2015 at 6:45 pm | News Release

GBT helps with landmark observation of near-Earth asteroid.

This adolescent star system shows signs that in its outer reaches, swarms of Pluto-size objects are jostling nearby smaller objects, causing them to collide and "kick up" considerable dust.

NRAO’s Top 10 Radio Hits of 2014

December 29, 2014 at 3:17 pm | Announcement

Looking back at the science news released by NRAO in 2014, the staff scientists at NRAO selected what they believed were the top 10 stories based on both scientific impact and public interest.

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