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 video ...

On November 16, 1974, humans sent their first message to the stars in an attempt to contact extraterrestrials. They did this using what was then the largest radio telescope in the world, located at ...

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 ...

The collapse of the 305-meter telescope at Arecibo Observatory in 2020 is being attributed to zinc creep – slow deformation due to stress – in the telescope's cable spelter sockets, according to a ...

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You can knock a good telescope out, but you can't keep it down. Using data from the now-destroyed Arecibo radio telescope, scientists from the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) Institute ...

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 ...

On Dec. 1, 2020, the Arecibo telescope collapsed. The Puerto Rico facility had already suffered two cable failures – one in August and one in November – and engineers had predicted that the increased ...

Data collected by the Arecibo Radio Telescope before it collapsed late last year will help astronomers better understand how our local neighbourhood of galaxies formed. Arecibo was the world’s largest ...

The Arecibo Observatory has been the world's largest single-aperture telescope for more than 50 years. But decreasing funding for its mission could result in its retirement and destruction in the near ...

The world-renowned radio telescope at the Arecibo Observatory in northern Puerto Rico, now on the brink of collapse, is set to be withdrawn from service, the National Science Foundation (NSF) ...