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Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd., a British company best known for developing small satellites, will help build a large, privately funded space telescope.

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Construction has begun on a new telescope designed to map one of the universe’s ...

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From astronauts circling the moon to spacecraft reaching Mercury and asteroids near Earth, 2026 is shaping up to be a landmark year for space exploration. Governments and private companies alike are ...

On April 24, 1990, NASA and the European Space Agency launched an astronomical revolution. When the Space Shuttle Discovery roared into the sky on that day, it carried the Hubble Space Telescope in ...

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NASA has disqualified one of the two proposals for a large astrophysics mission, a decision the project’s leader blames on ...