Once the world’s largest radio telescope, the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico unlocked the mysteries of the cosmos. But by ...

Puerto Rico’s Arecibo Observatory was felled by the combination of a hurricane, an equipment failure never before seen in the annals of engineering, and an “alarming” lack of concern from ...

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

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 ...

Olga Figueroa, directora del Observatorio de Arecibo. (Facebook) De otra parte, el catedrático insistió que el cierre paralizará la capacitación de muchos estudiantes que, actualmente ...

When the giant Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico collapsed in December 2020, it punched a hole in astronomy. For half a century Arecibo was the mightiest telescope on the planet. One thousand ...

We’d face a similar challenge if aliens sent us a message. How would we know the number and size of its dimensions? The Arecibo scientists built a clue into the transmission: 23 and 73 are prime ...

I n 1963, the Arecibo Observatory became operational on the island of Puerto Rico. Measuring 305 meters (~1000 ft) in ...

After a world-famous radio telescope at the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico collapsed two years ago, many scientists hoped that the US National Science Foundation (NSF), which runs the facility ...

The Arecibo Observatory's giant radio telescope in Puerto Rico suffered a cataclysmic failure in December 2020. Credit: Walter Bibikow / DigitalVision / Getty Images Powerful electromagnetic ...

Unfortunately, it appears that the National Science Foundation (NSF), the federal agency responsible for the Arecibo Observatory, has decided this facility will not be the site of future cutting ...