On the morning of December 1st, 2020, one of the most iconic astronomical instruments in the world collapsed. The Arecibo ...

What does the discovery of a binary pulsar in 1974, the discovery of the first exoplanets, and the most powerful message ...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) has deemed the radio telescope housed within the Arecibo Observatory no longer fit for ...

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 breathtaking ...

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 ...

The broadcast formed part of the ceremonies held to mark a major upgrade to the Arecibo Radio Telescope. The transmission consisted of a simple, pictorial message, aimed at our putative cosmic ...

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The Arecibo Observatory has a rich history. Scientists used the site's massive telescope to collect data about Earth's atmosphere, the solar system's planets, comets and more since its debut in ...

While this allows such searches to be conducted on quite large instruments (for example, the 305 m Arecibo dish, in Puerto Rico), the amount of telescope time available for the search is necessarily ...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) has deemed the radio telescope housed within the Arecibo Observatory no longer fit for function. As one of the biggest telescopes in the world, and once the ...