Atlas Obscura on Slate is a blog about the world’s hidden wonders. Like us on Facebook and Tumblr, or follow us on Twitter. On Monday Australia’s Swinburne University announced that one of its ...

For the first time in its 28-year run, the Parkes Elvis Festival, celebrated in Parkes, Australia, each year on the weekend closest to January 8—in honor of Elvis Presley’s birthday—has been cancelled ...

An actor, who helped launch Parkes onto the international stage, has been named its Australia Day ambassador for 2011. Roy Billing played the local mayor in the movie The Dish and asked to be the ...

The Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) will be upgrading the Parkes radio telescope, with The Dish to get a new receiver that has been touted will "significantly" ...

PARKES, Australia (Reuters) - It's known as "The Dish" and it soars above a nondescript paddock in rural Australia. Without it, hundreds of millions of people would never have seen all of the ...

Breakthrough Listen, the 10-year, $100-million astronomical search for intelligent life beyond Earth launched in 2015 by Internet entrepreneur Yuri Milner and Stephen Hawking, today announced its ...

A CSIRO team at Murriyang has been tracking millisecond pulsars for 18 years and say they have evidence supporting the existence of gravitational waves The Parkes radio telescope Murriyang, which ...

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