The Arecibo telescope found other worlds, helped win the Nobel Prize and starred in movies. Now, the US says it can’t afford to fix it Published: Nov. 19, 2020, 11:17 a.m.

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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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

Until its collapse last year, the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico spent six decades tuned to the radio stations of the heavens. There is no plan to rebuild it, and astronomers are in mourning.

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 ...

It’s been nearly four years since the Arecibo Telescope collapsed, an event the world got to witness in unprecedented detail thanks to strategically positioned drones. They captured breathtak… ...

The Arecibo message, beamed from Earth in 1974, was sent as 1,679 bits that created an image 23 pixels wide and 73 pixels tall (color added here to show the parts of the message). Johannes Rössel ...