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.

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).

The final data report from Arecibo, which collapsed in 2020, has revealed hundreds more asteroids lurking near Earth. U.S. ... Thomas Burbine, an astronomer at Mount Holyoke College, ...

In the early morning hours of August 10th, a support cable at the Arecibo Observatory pulled lose from its mount and crashed through the face of the primary reflector below.Images taken from below ...

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 ...

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 start… ...

"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.

Using data collected by Arecibo between December 2017 and December 2019, scientists have released the largest radar-based report on near-Earth asteroids ever published. The report, published Sept ...

The giant Arecibo radio telescope in Puerto Rico sustained less damage from Hurricane Maria than originally thought, an NSF official said Sept. 27. Close Newsletter Sign Ups ...

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.