Fi, no phones, and no radio. If you like silence and science, visit this 13,000-square-mile National Radio Quiet Zone, a ...

Green Bank, W.Va ... This fall, Charity will leave the quiet zone to attend West Virginia Wesleyan College, a small school in Buckhannon with about 1,400 students. In some ways, it will feel ...

I thought I had found it five years ago when I visited the National Radio Quiet Zone, established in 1958 to protect the United States’ first federal radio astronomy observatory, in Green Bank ...

Because its devices require complete electromagnetic silence, Green Bank Observatory was established as a Quiet Zone ... This 13,000-square-mile area in West Virginia is home to Green Bank ...

In the 1950s, radio interference affected the new astronomy telescope, so they created a Quiet Zone. Even today, the place is ...

In this West Virginia town, extraordinary efforts are taken to reduce radio transmissions, with residents’ use of Wi-Fi, cell ...

Editor’s note: This story has since been updated with a statement from the director of the Green Bank ... the National Radio ...

Starlink's home Internet service has come to the National Radio Quiet ... Green Bank Observatory announced last week. "The vast majority of people within the areas of Virginia and West Virginia ...

What is the National Radio Quiet Zone? Augusta County is one of several Virginia ... to better allow the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) in Green Bank, West Virginia, and radio receiving ...

More counties are expressing concerns about the National Radio Quiet Zone surrounding ... counties in West Virginia and Bath County in Virginia. Officials say closing the Green Bank Observatory ...