By Will Dunham Nov 12 (Reuters) - The European Space Agency has released its first big collection of data from the orbiting ...

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A world-leading telescope at the Mullard Radio Astronomy Observatory in South Cambridgeshire could be shut down if its funding is withdrawn.

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The European Space Agency’s Euclid space telescope has released its first major batch of ...

Less than a decade ago, there were about 2,000 operational satellites orbiting Earth. Today there are more than 15,000.

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A groundbreaking new supercomputer simulation is revealing how the universe escaped its cosmic dark age and transformed into ...

For the first time, a robot has autonomously built part of a structure in space, demonstrating a breakthrough that could ...