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.

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

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 ...

A new novel for young adults captures a slice of life in Pocahontas County, West Virginia. The Secret Astronomers tells the ...

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 ...

GREEN BANK, W.Va. — Ellie White and her mother Deana White were advocating for Green Bank Observatory when they were approached about being in a documentary about the facility. Ellie White, who ...

In a quiet West Virginia town, a radio telescope searches for signs of life beyond Earth. Green Bank, West Virginia, is home to the world’s most sensitive radio telescope—and the only U.S. town where ...