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Puerto Rico's iconic Arecibo Observatory won't be replaced after crashing to its doom 2 years ago. Dramatic photos and video show pieces of the broken telescope being overtaken by the jungle.
The telescope's observing equipment hung from a platform strung over a 1,000-foot radio dish until …
Paola Rosa-Aquino
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NASA is developing plans to build an enormous, Arecibo-like telescope inside a crater on the moon
NASA researchers are plotting out how robots could build a radio telescope inside a moon crater. It…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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New satellite images show the Arecibo Observatory before and after its violent collapse in Puerto Rico
Satellites orbiting Earth took photos of the Arecibo Observatory before and after the famous radio …
Dave Mosher
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China now holds the world's last giant, single-dish telescope after the Arecibo Observatory radio telescope collapsed
China's FAST single-dish, giant telescope is the last remaining in the world. It is also the larges…
Azmi Haroun
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Photos show what the Arecibo telescope looked like before and after its disastrous collapse
Compare images of the iconic Arecibo telescope in Puerto Rico before and after its platform fell 45…
Susie Neilson
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A video shows the 'violent' collapse of the iconic Arecibo telescope. It sounded like an avalanche, a staff scientist said.
Puerto Rico's iconic Arecibo radio telescope collapsed on Tuesday. Videos show its 900-ton platform…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen,Aylin Woodward
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The Arecibo telescope tracked dangerous asteroids, broadcast to potential aliens, and starred in a Bond film. Here's what the world lost when it collapsed.
It also weathered hurricanes and earthquakes for years. But after Tropical Storm Isaias passed over…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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The Arecibo telescope's 900-ton platform has crashed into its disk below and destroyed the iconic radio observatory
One of Earth's key radio telescopes fell in on itself, dealing a major blow to astronomers' searche…
Aylin Woodward,Dave Mosher,Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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The iconic Arecibo telescope faces an imminent, catastrophic collapse. Engineers are now racing to deconstruct it.
One of Earth's two key radio observatories has been damaged beyond repair. The loss is a major blow…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen,Dave Mosher
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'This is not good': The Arecibo telescope just suffered even more damage that will set back searches for asteroids and aliens
In August, a cable at the Arecibo Observatory snapped, tearing a hole in the reflector dish. On Fri…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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A broken cable smashed a hole 100 feet wide in the Arecibo Observatory, which searches for aliens and tracks dangerous asteroids
The cable ripped through the observatory's reflector dish and damaged the dome that directs the tel…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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Arecibo Observatory is shutting down — here are some of the most groundbreaking discoveries it inspired, including one that led to a Nobel Prize
The Arecibo Observatory is one of the biggest in the world, responsible for some of the most crucia…
Prabhjote Gill
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The biggest asteroid of 2020 will zoom past Earth on April 29 — adhering to 'social distancing' and even wearing a mask
The biggest asteroid of the year doesn’t care that Earth is under lockdown — and it’s set to zoom p…
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An asteroid that whizzed past Earth last week had its own Moon
Asteroids fly past Earth on a daily basis. More often than not, it’s more than one asteroid on any …
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An experiment that reaches across our galaxy has detected the first signs of a possible 'sea' of ripples in space-time
Supermassive black holes merging in distant galaxies could be creating a background hum of gravitat…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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On the same day China landed a probe on the moon, the US's massive telescope in Puerto Rico collapsed
A step forward in space exploration for China and humankind, on the same day as a colossal step bac…
Azmi Haroun
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The Geminids meteor shower peaks this weekend, with hundreds of multicolored shooting stars. Here's how to spot them.
The asteroid Phaethon left behind the trail of dust that's responsible for the Geminids show severa…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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Dara Khosrowshahi hits the kill switch on Uber's moonshots
In this week's edition of Insider Tech we look at Uber's spinoff spree, Elon Musk's wish for a Mars…
Alexei Oreskovic
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The Geminids meteor shower peaks this weekend. NASA's solar probe just spotted the giant trail of asteroid dust for the first time ever.
"The truly remarkable thing about the Parker Solar Probe mission is that it's also giving us answer…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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A 'potentially hazardous' asteroid bigger than Earth's tallest skyscraper is about to fly near our planet
"We have been tracking this asteroid for over 14 years and know its orbit very accurately," Paul Ch…