ARECIBO, Puerto Rico (AP) — A huge, already damaged radio telescope in Puerto Rico that has played a key role in astronomical discoveries for more than half a century completely collapsed on Tuesday.

(Reuters) - A massive radio telescope at Puerto Rico's Arecibo Observatory - one of the world's largest - collapsed on Tuesday after sustaining severe damage since August, officials said, following 57 ...

An historic telescope has collapsed. For more than half a century, the enormous Arecibo telescope searched the skies from its spot in a lush forest of Puerto Rico. As NPR's Nell Greenfieldboyce ...

WASHINGTON, Nov 19 (Reuters) - The U.S. National Science Foundation on Thursday announced it will close down the massive space telescope at Puerto Rico's Arecibo Observatory, ending 57 years of ...

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico -- The giant, aging cables that support one of the world's largest single-dish radio telescopes are slowly unraveling in this U.S. territory, pushing an observatory renowned for ...

Requested by the Director of the National Science Foundation "Analysis of Cause(s) of Failure and Collapse of the 305-Meter Telescope at the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico" The committee will ...

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radio telescope at the Arecibo Observatory in northern Puerto Rico, now on the brink of collapse, is set to be withdrawn from service, the National Science Foundation (NSF) ...

ARECIBO, Puerto Rico — A huge, already damaged radio telescope in Puerto Rico that has played a key role in astronomical discoveries for more than half a century completely collapsed on Tuesday. The ...