Requested by the Director of the National Science Foundation "Analysis of Cause(s) of Failure and Collapse of the 305-Meter Telescope at the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico" The committee will ...

In her last days in office, Gov. Wanda Vázquez Garced signed an executive order committing Puerto Rico to reconstruct the Arecibo radio observatory — a telescope Cornell managed for 42 years. The ...

The Arecibo Observatory suffered a massive collapse. A control room camera and drone captured the devastation. Credit: ...

Astronomers compare losing the observatory in Puerto Rico to losing a big brother. It was once the world's largest single-dish radio telescope. Updated on Dec. 4 at 11:30 a.m. ET The Arecibo ...

An historic telescope has collapsed. For more than half a century, the enormous Arecibo telescope searched the skies from its spot in a lush forest of Puerto Rico. As NPR's Nell Greenfieldboyce ...

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radio telescope at the Arecibo Observatory in northern Puerto Rico, now on the brink of collapse, is set to be withdrawn from service, the National Science Foundation (NSF) ...

Arecibo’s dramatic collapse was not a sudden accident but a slow-motion failure of materials, design limits, and difficult choices. After hurricane damage and decades of reduced funding, one cable ...

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 ...