The world-famous Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico, known for helping scientists peer into deep space and listen for distant radio waves, is set to be decommissioned and demolished after ...

Arecibo Observatory, an ‘icon of Puerto Rican science,’ will be demolished. After two cables broke, the observatory was feared to be on the verge of collapse.

As if 2020 couldn’t get any worse, we received news this morning that the giant dish at Arecibo will have to be demolished. The National Science Foundation came to this hard decision following a ...

Iconic radio telescope in Puerto Rico to be demolished. After two support cables broke at Arecibo Observatory, the facility is in danger of a catastrophic collapse, prompting the National Science ...

Famed Puerto Rico radio telescope at Arecibo Observatory, hugely important to scientific research for more than 50 years, to be demolished. Doyle Rice. USA TODAY.

Iconic Arecibo Alien-Hunting Observatory Will Be Demolished BREAKING: The Arecibo SETI observatory will be demolished, in a sad day for the hunt for extraterrestrial life.

The 1,000-foot-wide radio telescope dish at Arecibo Observatory, built in a massive natural depression, and the 900-ton instruments platform above (Jeff Hitchcock/Flickr/CC BY 2.0) Although ...

Not wanting to see the observatory demolished, a Puerto Rican scientist launched a petition on Change.org to urge the NSF to repair Arecibo. As of today, the petition has more than 36,000 signatures.

The Arecibo Observatory and its 305-meter telescope will be decommissioned and eventually demolished. According to the NSF, the decommissioning process is already underway.

The Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico, home to an epic telescope dish, is saying goodbye. The observatory suffered serious structural damage when a cable failed in August , and the situation's ...

The Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico has figured prominently in our coverage of the cosmos here on ExtremeTech, so we're sad to report that this iconic radio telescope will be demolished.