An ongoing investigation of the December collapse of the iconic radio telescope at Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico offers early evidence that a manufacturing issue may have contributed to the…
Continue readingBy Joel GoldbergJan. 22, 2021 , 8:00 AM If a telescope’s 900-ton platform falls in a forest, it most definitely makes a sound. On 1 December 2020, a monumental collapse…
Continue readingOn 1 December 2020, the 900-ton instrument platform of the Arecibo Observatory crashed into its dish, which is cradled in a natural sinkhole. RICARDO ARDUENGO/AFP VIA GETTY IMAGES By Daniel…
Continue readingThe collapse of the iconic radio telescope at the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico last month has left astronomers with a host of questions about what went wrong and what…
Continue readingWhen the 60-year-old Arecibo Observatory collapsed in 2020, the crash didn’t just take down one of the world’s preeminent radio telescopes, it also dealt a massive blow to the future…
Continue readingCongress wants a report investigating the December collapse of the iconic radio telescope at Arecibo Observatory by late February as the government evaluates what comes next for the facility, located…
Continue readingThis article was originally published at The Conversation. The publication contributed the article to Space.com’s Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights. A mere two weeks after the National Science Foundation declared it would close the…
Continue readingThe Arecibo Observatory collapsed today (December 1), shattering the telescope’s 305-meter-wide radio dish and marking a cataclysmic end to the telescope’s 57-year run studying outer space, searching for alien life,…
Continue readingAfter more than a half-century of supporting breakthrough scientific work—and providing a scenic backdrop for Contact, GoldenEye and other blockbuster Hollywood films—the iconic Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico is going…
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