Before-and-after images of the Arecibo Observatory show a dramatic collapse that ended an era in space research. Astronomers mourned the loss of the observatory, which faced natural disasters. For ...

The Arecibo radio telescope in Puerto Rico was the largest telescope in the world for decades. Several discoveries were made using this historic eye on the sky, and now, this remarkable instrument, ...

Powerful electromagnetic radiation from an enormous radio telescope in Puerto Rico may have fast-tracked structural damage that led to the instrument's collapse in 2020, a new report says. On Dec. 1, ...

In 1963, the Arecibo Observatory became operational on the island of Puerto Rico. Measuring 305 meters (~1000 ft) in diameter, Arecibo's spherical reflector dish was the largest radio telescope in the ...

The National Science Foundation announced this week that the site of the destroyed Arecibo Observatory radio telescope in Puerto Rico will become a STEM-focused educational center, and it’s seeking ...

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. By ...

Puerto Rico’s famed Arecibo Observatory telescope collapsed last week, ending an era of world-class research. Arecibo, built in 1963, was the world's largest single-dish radio telescope until 2016, ...

We are coming up on the second anniversary of the destruction of the iconic 1,000-foot telescope/radar at the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico. For nearly six decades, the Arecibo Observatory was a ...

The December 2020 collapse of the Arecibo Telescope in Puerto Rico came at the end of a 39-month sequence that began with Hurricane Maria in 2017, according to a new report from the National Academies ...

AUSTIN, Texas Astronomers from Arecibo Observatory radio telescope in Arecibo, Puerto Rico, have detected for the first time the molecules methanimine and hydrogen cyanide two ingredients that build ...

Dear kurtconi01,<BR><BR>Arecibo Observatory, the world's largest radio telescope and the source for<BR>the SETI@home data that your computer analyzes, faces massive budget cuts that<BR>will END its ...

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 radiation ...