: a radio receiver-antenna combination used for observation in radio astronomy
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Institute searches for extraterrestrial life Research teams at the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) Institute have for years famously used radio telescopes to search for signals in outer space that could originate from intelligent life beyond our world.—Eric Lagatta, USA Today, 11 Mar. 2026 Most dark and almost-dark galaxy candidates, Minchin said, have been identified using radio telescopes and searching for hydrogen gas, but those efforts will miss galaxies like CDG-2, where the gas has been removed.—Jacopo Prisco, CNN Money, 3 Mar. 2026 Using the world's largest radio telescope array, The Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array, astronomers have dived deeper into the turbulent and complex tendrils of gas and dust at the heart of our galaxy than ever before.—Robert Lea, Space.com, 25 Feb. 2026 Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost Mission 2 with the LuSEE-Night radio telescope aboard will attempt to become the third successful mission to land there.—Harry Goldstein, IEEE Spectrum, 1 Feb. 2026 See All Example Sentences for radio telescope