It happened in less than 10 seconds, two years ago today: The Arecibo Observatory’s 1,000-foot radio dish collapsed, eliminating one of the world’s most renowned sources of radio observations. ...

The legacy of Arecibo's nearly 60 years of astronomy research is strong, ... This aerial view shows a hole in the dish panels of the Arecibo Observatory in Arecibo, Puerto Rico, on Nov. 19, 2020.

The Arecibo dish was the largest single-aperture telescope in the world until 2016, and in addition to being a huge tourist draw, played prominent roles in GoldenEye, Carl Sagan’s Contact, The X ...

The Arecibo Observatory’s suspended equipment platform collapsed just before 8 a.m. local time on December 1, falling more than 450 feet and crashing through the telescope’s massive radio dish ...

Today, the National Science Foundation announced that its famed Arecibo radio observatory would be shut down. Built into a hilltop in Puerto Rico, the main dish of the observatory is over 300 ...

As if 2020 couldn’t get any worse, we received news this morning that the giant dish at Arecibo will have to be demolished. The National Science Foundation came to this hard decision following a ...

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 900-ton platform suspended above the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico came crashing down, a scenario that many engineers suspected might happen. The collapse comes after the facility ...

The Arecibo Telescope collapsed on Tuesday: Its 900-ton hanging platform crashed into its main dish.; In its 57 years of radio astronomy, Arecibo tracked potentially hazardous asteroids ...

Aerial view of Arecibo’s shattered radio dish, which was damaged beyond repair by the crash-landing of the observatory’s 900-ton equipment platform after additional cable failures.

The Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico has collapsed, after weeks of concern from scientists over the fate of what was once the world's largest single-dish radio telescope. Arecibo's 900-ton ...

In 1968, scientists used Goldstone to make the first radar asteroid observations. In the decades that followed, researchers leaned more heavily on the Arecibo Observatory, a larger dish in Puerto ...