Arecibo Observatory News

The unexpected findings were a result of data collected for more than a decade at the NSF facility, which is managed by the University of Central Florida, and from data from NASA’s Fermi Large Area Space Telescope.

The National Science Foundation facility is closed while engineers review the damage and assess the extent of repairs that will be needed to bring the telescope back online.

The National Science Foundation facility, managed by the University of Central Florida, determines that a newly discovered asteroid won’t threaten Earth.

International team makes discovery using the National Science Foundation’s Arecibo Observatory’s powerful radio telescope, which is managed by the University of Central Florida.

Days after resuming operations post-earthquakes, Arecibo scientists make rare find.

$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.