The National Science Foundation (NSF) will decommission Arecibo Observatory's massive radio dish after damage has made the facility too dangerous to repair, the agency announced today (Nov. 19).

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Arecibo’s crowning moment in pop culture, however, is certainly its appearance in the 1995 James Bond film “GoldenEye” — and the wildly popular Nintendo 64 game based on it.

Arecibo's catastrophic collapse, as captured by on-site cameras. Courtesy of Carlos Perez/Adrian Bague/NSF. Arecibo, This Is Your Life. Until China’s Five-Hundred-Meter Aperture Spherical Radio ...

"Arecibo is also a radar, capable of transmitting [radio waves.] Most radio telescope, such as the larger one in China [FAST], are only able to listen," Mendez tells Inverse.

The legacy of Arecibo's nearly 60 years of astronomy research is strong, even after its loss in a dramatic 2020 collapse. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

For nearly six decades, the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico stood as a monument to human curiosity, exploration, and technological brilliance. Once the world’s largest radio telescope ...

Edgard Rivera-Valentín first visited the Arecibo Observatory as a little kid. “I definitely remember this feeling of just being awestruck,” Rivera-Valentín says. “Looking at this gigantic ...

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The famous Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico completely collapsed in 2020. Now, scientists going through its final observations offer a major new asteroid report.