Planetary Sciences

August 25th, 2019

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. Read More

Engineering

August 14, 2019

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.

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Educación

Aug 30, 2019

El Observatorio de Arecibo celebra el regreso a clases con una variedad de nuevas exhibiciones tituladas Sol, Tierra y Universo, auspiciadas por la NASA y la red Nacional de educación informal STEM (NISE por sus siglas en ingles). Read More

Today, the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico hosted a celebration for Asteroid Day 2019, but one space rock made a surprise early appearance. On June 22, at around 5:25 pm local time, an explosion was detected in the atmosphere over the Caribbean just 230 miles (380 km) south of Puerto Rico. Read More