Arecibo’s dramatic collapse was not a sudden accident but a slow-motion failure of materials, design limits, and difficult choices. After hurricane damage and decades of reduced funding, one cable ...

Nearly three years after the rapid unplanned disassembly of the Arecibo radio telescope, we finally have a culprit in the collapse: bad sockets. In case you somehow missed it, back in 2020 we ...

"It was a mess. It was a twisted wreckage." You may like After the Arecibo collapse in 2020, a lone NASA radar dish in the Mojave desert stepped up as a leading asteroid hunter Preserving ...

The Arecibo Observatory suffered a massive collapse. A control room camera and drone captured the devastation. Credit: ...

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 ...

Observatory astronomers once brought some telescopes to a summer camp she attended as a girl growing up in San Juan, part of one of Arecibo’s various educational programs – the future of which ...

The telescope’s 900-ton platform came crashing down overnight The telescope’s 900-ton platform came crashing down overnight The massive Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico collapsed in on ...

The Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico has collapsed, after weeks of concern from scientists over the fate of what was once the world's largest single-dish radio telescope. Arecibo's 900-ton ...

The U.S.’s famed Arecibo Observatory survived all manners of threats since its construction in a bowl-shaped natural sinkhole in the forested hills of Puerto Rico in 1963. It persisted through ...

By Dennis Overbye One of the great icons of human curiosity, the Arecibo radio telescope, is going to be torn down, the National Science Foundation, its owner, announced today. From its perch in ...

When the 60-year-old Arecibo Observatory collapsed in 2020, the crash didn’t just take down one of the world’s preeminent radio telescopes, it also dealt a massive blow to the future of radio ...