Arecibo Observatory News

$1.5 million grant to help launch new programs, including guaranteed telescope time for selected participants.

The platform is expected to make robust information about planets, pulsars, asteroids and comets more easily accessible to scientists working at Arecibo and around the world.

Our understanding of comets is linked to knowing our solar system’s early composition.

The four-year grant will enable UCF to observe and characterize near-Earth objects that pose a potential hazard to the planet or that could be candidates for future space missions.

The money will be used during the next four years to make a range of repairs and improvements to the facility, which will also expand Arecibo’s capabilities to do cutting edge observations.

Cool events to attend and connections to UCF.

In honor of the 50th anniversary of the country’s historic Apollo 11 mission, UCF takes a look back, and a look forward, at its role in America’s space program.

UCF physics professor Josh Colwell talks science as Spock; Limbitless unveils Halo-inspired arm; Arecibo debuts comic book series.

The Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico marked Earth Day on Monday by releasing its second puzzle challenge as part of the New Arecibo Message –…