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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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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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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 W…
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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,Mo…
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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 Mo…
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Hubble telescope once again enters safe mode, science operations shut
Science operations have been once again shut on the iconic Hubble telescope as the ageing observato…
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Mozilla slams Facebook for terminating the accounts of NYU researchers, says the claims 'simply do not hold water'
"In our view, those claims simply do not hold water. We know this, because before encouragin…
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Extreme cold is gripping the Northeast, with Boston shutting down its schools before being hit by wind chill temperatures below zero
Temperatures in Boston on Tuesday morning were hovering in the single-digits, though the wind chill…
Jake Epstein
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Russia shuts itself off from the world's internet
The country blocks Facebook and limits other tech platforms in an attempt to insulate its citizens …
Kali Hays,Graham Rapier,Jake …
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NASA is about to crash a nuclear-powered robot into Saturn - here's when and how Cassini's final moments will go down in history
What: The probe will take one final image before shutting down its camera system. That picture will…
Dave Mosher
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Scientists found more than 1,000 AI spam bots trying to scam people and steal their social media profiles and regulators can't keep up
Social media is being flooded with spammy AI content. Research by Indiana University details how ar…
Shubham Agarwal
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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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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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What happens to the human body when the temperature reaches 50 degree celsius?
Scorching heat has caused menace in the world's second-most populous nation, India. First, it incre…
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The Hubble Space Telescope has been offline for more than a week, and NASA isn't sure why
NASA's iconic Earth-orbiting observatory is getting old. After Hubble's last glitch over the summer…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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Facebook is trying to prevent NYU from examining its political ad-targeting. Researchers say they have no intention of stopping their work.
Facebook sent the NYU Ad Observatory a letter demanding they stop studying Facebook's political ad-…
Samantha Grindell
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China's largest radio telescope is now fully operational and hoping to find aliens
China’s first told the world about its the 500-meter Aperture Spherical Telescope (FAST) in 2016.…
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AI is about to turn the internet into a total nightmare
From way more spam to sneakier scams, AI is going to make even the most basic online tasks more ann…
Shubham Agarwal
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NASA's Hubble Space Telescope photographed colliding galaxies after recovering from a month-long mystery glitch
Hubble's first new photos show two colliding galaxies and one long galactic spiral. The telescope i…