GREEN BANK, W.Va. (WBOY) — For the first time ever, residents are allowed to use certain wireless internet in the highly restrictive West Virginia Radio Quiet Zone near the Green Bank Observatory.

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 ...

POCAHONTAS COUNTY, W.Va. (WCHS/WVAH) — When a group of scientists released the first image ever made of a black hole, captured by eight radio telescope observatories around the world, the world’s ...

The world's largest fully-steerable telescope at the U.S. National Science Foundation Observatory at Green Bank, West ...

A remote West Virginia school known as the quietest in America has finally been granted access to Wi-Fi for the first time in its history. Green Bank Elementary-Middle School is located within the ...

FRANKLIN, W.Va. (WBOY) — Since it was established in 1958, the National Radio Quiet Zone (NRQZ) has limited wireless communication over Pendleton County and other remote parts of West Virginia in the ...

HUNTINGTON — Deana White was at home, teaching her daughter in 2016 when the two of them decided to take a trip to the Robert C. Byrd Green Bank Telescope observatory and met an astronomer who gave ...

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 ...

The positions in the table below reflect the Green Bank Observatory's position overall, domestically, within their sector, and in various subject areas based on their Share. Each position links to the ...