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Ahead of schedule and under budget, the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will launch in early September. The mission aims to ...

Javier Barbuzano is a freelance science journalist from Spain. He writes about astronomy, Earth sciences, and the environment. His work appears in publications such as Sky & Telescope, Eos, Science ...