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 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 ...

A crowd-sourced search for alien intelligence called SETI@Home is in its final stages, analyzing 100 radio signals of interest using the world's largest radio telescope.

A Zinc decay was to blame for cable failures at the Arecibo Observatory, which held the title of "world's largest radio telescope." When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. One of the largest searches for alien intelligence in history is nearing completion, thanks to the help of more than 2 million ...

Five years after the collapse of the Arecibo Observatory telescope — the world’s largest single-dish radio telescope until 2016, when China completed a larger one — space physicist Qihou Zhou is ...

Puerto Rico’s famed Arecibo Observatory telescope collapsed last week, ending an era of world-class research. Arecibo, built in 1963, was the world's largest single-dish radio telescope until 2016, ...

Following nearly five decades of directing the world’s largest single-dish telescope, Cornell lost its multi-million dollar bid to continue operating Arecibo Observatory last month. As of Oct. 1, the ...

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radio telescope at the Arecibo Observatory in northern Puerto Rico, now on the brink of collapse, is set to be withdrawn from service, the National Science Foundation (NSF) ...

Stephen has degrees in science (Physics major) and arts (English Literature and the History and Philosophy of Science), as well as a Graduate Diploma in Science Communication. Stephen has degrees in ...

The U.S. National Science Foundation issued a solicitation Oct. 13 for a new multidisciplinary, world-class educational center at the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico that aims to serve as a hub for ...