The big dish at the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico is on the verge of collapse, leaving officials with no choice but to retire the famous radio telescope. Astronomers around the world are now having to face a grim reality: that this dutiful dish — in service for the past…
An asteroid that whizzed within 4.8 million kilometres of Earth last week turned out to be two objects in a binary system, according to new observations.
Yesterday, the US National Science Foundation announced that they will keep the storied Arecibo telescope running in the wake of the Hurricane Maria damage.