60 years later, the Parkes dish is still performing world-class science and making discoveries that shape our understanding of the Universe.

The Dish, the movie, will be screening in a sheep paddock alongside the dish, the real thing, at Parkes in central NSW this weekend. It's part of an open weekend to celebrate the 64-metre CSIRO ...

The Parkes telescope was originally planned as a backup during the moonwalk for NASA’s two tracking stations, the 64 metre dish at Goldstone in California, and the 26 metre dish at Tidbinbilla ...

The Parkes dish is known affectionately as the grand old lady of astronomy. The stately dowager has launched the research careers of three generations of Australian astronomers. October 31, 2001 ...

The Parkes Dish will help NASA return to the moon, 60 years after the radio telescope helped broadcast the first time humans stepped foot on the lunar surface. Skip to main content.

The comedy The Dish tells the true story of a small Down Under town’s underappreciated role in the Apollo 11 mission. ... (plus a doofus security guard). Real-life Parkes electrician Ben Lam, ...

The Parkes radio telescope in New South Wales, Australia, is one of the most elegant scientific instruments ever built. Pointed to the heavens, its giant white parabolic dish – mounted on a ...

After six decades during which it tracked lunar missions, spotted distant pulsars and quasars, and even expanded our concept of the size of the Universe, the Parkes telescope is still going strong.

The mysterious cosmic burst was observed via the Parkes Radio Telescope, a 210-foot-wide dish in the middle of a sheep paddock 240 miles west of Sydney.The story of this telescope, known ...

A $100 million search for intelligent alien life just added a big arrow to its quiver. Breakthrough Listen has begun using the Parkes radio telescope in Australia to scan the heavens ...

The Dish portrays Australia’s role in relaying live television footage of the first man on the Moon during the 1969 Apollo 11 mission. But it omits the pivotal role of NASA’s Honeysuckle Creek ...

The University of Western Australia's Zadko Telescope and the Parkes Radio Telescope have joined forces in a new mission involving an international team of radio astronomers to hunt for mystery ...